Re: preparing the upcoming GDB 7.4 release

[Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>]

On 11/10/11 7:43 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I hope `pending tracepoint' which I am working on can be in 7.4
> > release.  Patches are nearly done, and most (70%) of them were sent
> > for review in this patch set,
> >
> >    [patch 0/8] Download tracepoint locations when tracing is running
> >    http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-11/msg00168.html
> For new features like this, I think you need to convince the Global
> Maintainers as a group that there is a good reason for waiting.
> Reasons could be:
>     - It's only going to be a few more days at most
>     - Some other features would not be usable without it
>     - It's a killer feature

It *is* a killer feature! :-)  And I swear there is no conflict of 
interest whatsoever in me saying that. :-)

Actually it does fix a major longstanding bug in tracepoint support, 
which is that tracepoints in shared library code don't work unless the 
library has been loaded already.  Marc Khouzam has bumped into this one 
I believe, dunno if there's a bugzilla entry for it.

Stan