you should consider sending mail to the same address, to find out
whether anyone else is working on it.
-General To Do List
+
+TODO: GDB 5.0
+=============
+
+Here are _all_ the issues that have been raised vis-a-vis the 5.0
+release. Also check the GDB, and other, mail archives
+(http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/).
+
+If, however, you fix something, then feel free to tweek this file
+(deleting the problem). Just send a note to gdb-patches so that I see
+the change.
+
+The names in paren are those that might know more about the problem.
+They don't necessarily indicate the people that will fix the problem.
+
+--
+
+GDB 5.0: Must have
------------------
+These are things that have been identifed as must-have for this
+release of GDB.
+
+--
+
+Watch point related patches (Eli Zaretskii, Michael Snyder, ???)
+
+Eli writes: This doesn't include the watchpoint-related patches I sent
+beginning with August or September, and mentioned them again three
+weeks ago. Here again are the pointers to the relevant messages:
+
+Hardware breakpoints and watchpoints: patches
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q3/msg00173.html
+
+Re: Hardware breakpoints and watchpoints: patches
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q3/msg00204.html
+
+Re: Hardware breakpoints and watchpoints: patches
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q4/msg00200.html
+
+Hardware watchpoints for bitfields
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/1999-q4/msg00201.html
+
+--
+
+Tom's speedups to GDB (Tom Tromey, Jim Blandy)
+
+I believe that there was a late breaking fix that stopped a coredump.
+
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00869.html
+
+--
+
+Solaris/x86 - which? (Nick Duffek, Peter Schauer, Michael Snyder?)
+
+Nick D's working through patches from Michael Snyder and Peter S.
+
+--
+
+Texinfo broken/builds (Andrew Cagney, Stan Shebs)
+
+Cagney probably botched a fix to a botch.
+
+--
+
+x86 linux GDB and SIGALRM
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00803.html
+
+--
+
+RFA: breakpoint.c: Minor output fixes for hardware watchpoints
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00558.html
+
+During implementation of hardware watchpoints on Solaris, I noticed the
+following inconsistencies in breakpoint.c output between software and
+hardware breakpoints.
+
+--
+
+GDB 5.0: Nice to have
+---------------------
+
+These are things that might make it in 5.0 but don't sit in the
+critical path. If they miss the 5.0 cut then they definitly should
+make the follow-on release.
+
+--
+
+Generic: lin-thread cannot handle thread exit (Mark Kettenis, Michael Snyder)
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00525.html
+
+The thread_db assisted debugging code doesn't handle exiting threads
+properly, at least in combination with glibc 2.1.3 (the framework is
+there, just not the actual code). There are at least two problems
+that prevent this from working.
+
+As an additional reference point, the pre thread_db code didn't work
+either.
+
+--
+
+Java (Anthony Green, David Taylor)
+
+Anthony Green has started contributing late breaking Java patches:
+
+Patch: java tests
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00512.html
+
+Patch: java booleans
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00515.html
+
+Patch: handle N_MAIN stab
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00527.html
+
+It should be able to squeeze these in.
+
+--
+
+Pascal (Pierre Muller, David Taylor)
+
+The pascal support patches nave been added to the patch data base. I
+[cagney] strongly suspect that they are better suited for 5.1.
+
+--
+
+Programs run under GDB have SIGCHLD masked.
+
+[I think this can be worked around by using the action command -
+cagney]
+
+--
+
+GNU/Linux/x86 and random thread signals (and Solaris/SPARC but not
+Solaris/x86)
+
+Christopher Blizzard writes:
+
+So, I've done some more digging into this and it looks like Jim
+Kingdon has reported this problem in the past:
+
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/bug-gdb/1999-10/msg00058.html
+
+I can reproduce this problem both with and without Tom's patch. Has
+anyone seen this before? Maybe have a solution for it hanging around?
+:)
+
+There's a test case for this documented at:
+
+when debugging threaded applications you get extra SIGTRAPs
+http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9565
+
+[There should be a GDB testcase - cagney]
+
+--
+
+IRIX?
+
+Benjamin Gamsa wrote:
+
+Has anyone successfully built the latest (from cvs) gdb on IRIX6.4 or
+later? The first problem I hit is that proc-api.c includes
+sys/user.h, which no longer exists under IRIX6.4. If I comment out
+that include, the next problem I hit is that PIOCGETPR and PIOCGETU
+are no longer defined in IRIX6.4 (presumably related to the
+disappearance of user.h).
+
+--
+
+Regressions (prologue) with devel GCC.
+
+The current head of the GCC branch doesn't co-operate well with GDB
+over debug information.
+
+Regressions problem (200 failures)
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00475.html
+
+--
+
+RFA: infrun.c, breakpoint.c: Kludge for Solaris x86 hardware watchpoint support
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00664.html
+
+Unfortunately I'd need the following kludge to work around a Solaris
+x86 kernel problem with hardware watchpoint support. See the comment
+in the patches for a description of the problem.
+
+--
+
+RFD: infrun.c: No bpstat_stop_status call after proceed over break ?
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00665.html
+
+I am currently trying to fix a GDB bug with missing watchpoint triggers
+after proceeding over a breakpoint on x86 targets.
+
+--
+
+GDB 5.0: Won't have
+-------------------
+
+The following are on hold until GDB 5.0 is branched. In general they
+won't go in as they unsettle the GDB sources.
+
+--
+
+ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
+
+The need for this as almost been eliminated. The next version of GCC
+(assuming cagney gets the revised patch approved) will be able to
+supress unused parameter warnings.
+
+--
+
+Delete macro TARGET_BYTE_ORDER_SELECTABLE.
+
+Patches in the database.
+
+--
+
+Updated readline
+
+Readline 4.? is out. A merge wouldn't hurt.
+
+--
+
+Purge PARAMS
+
+Something to do post 5.0 branch
+
+--
+
+GDB 5.0: Test results
+---------------------
+
+Please include:
+
+ o the output of `config.guess`
+ o the date
+ o the compiler
+ o a note mentioning the reason
+ for any serious failures.
+
+--
+
+alpha-dec-osf4.0a, vendor compiler, 2000-03-04
+
+Still has many compile warnings (mostly relating back to PTR vs void*)
+but it did compile using:
+
+ CC=cc .../configure
+ make
+
+Test results are:
+
+# of expected passes 6223
+# of unexpected failures 103
+# of unexpected successes 2
+# of expected failures 196
+# of unresolved testcases 6
+# of unsupported tests 1
+
+Looking at the output it would appear that GDB is stepping into some
+functions instead of ``next'' ing over them:
+
+ 35 dummy();
+ (gdb) next
+ dummy () at /home/cagney/GDB-DEJAGNU/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/all-types.c:41
+ 41 {
+
+Since there is no active maintainer, I'd consider this sufficient for
+5.0 :-/
+
+--
+
+sparc-sun-solaris2.6, egcs-2.91.66, 2000-02-10
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-testers/2000-q1/msg00030.html
+
+There is a SIGTRAP problem that occures in ptrace.exp (Cagney to
+expand on).
+
+# of expected passes 6420
+# of unexpected failures 7
+# of expected failures 199
+
+--
+
+solaris 2.5.1 sparc?, 2.9-gnupro-99r1, 2000-02-10
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-testers/2000-q1/msg00032.html
+
+# of expected passes 6420
+# of unexpected failures 6
+# of expected failures 199
+
+--
+
+sparc-unknown-netbsdelf1.4P, egcs-1.1.2+, 2000-03-01
+
+This is with a very recent kernel.
+
+# of expected passes 6055
+# of unexpected failures 88
+# of unexpected successes 1
+# of expected failures 190
+# of unresolved testcases 59
+
+--
+
+GNU/Linux PPC
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00185.html
+
+Kevins merged it all in.
+
+--
+
+Unixware
+
+Builds ok. Problems with some of the thread code. Unfortunate but
+not a show stopper. Nick D's still looking at it.
+
+Re: uw-threads issues
+http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb/2000-q1/msg00025.html
+
+
+ ------------------------------------------------
+
+
+General Wish List
+=================
+
This list is probably not up to date, and opinions vary about the
importance or even desirability of some of the items.
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