Hello,
Attended two events in a row in September, so had a bit of a time crunch and the weekly report fell through the cracks...
# TCWG CI
- Investigated and fixed a few false positives in the GDB precommit CI which were caused by random failures in gdb.threads/process-dies-while-detaching.exp. Posted upstream and later committed patch fixing the testcase to be more stable.
- After conversations during GNU Tools Cauldron and following Maxim's suggestion, changed Linaro's CI to use the read1 library while running the GDB testsuite to improve the stability of its results.
- After review from Tom Tromey, posted v2 and later committed a patch which adds '--with-additional-debug-dirs' configure option.
- Committed a couple of changes to our CI scripts which make sure that the kernel.yama.ptrace_scope and kernel.core_pattern sysctls have correct values for running the GDB testsuite.
# [GNU-767] Support changing SVE vector length in remote debugging
- Now that Luis pushed his SME and SME2 patches, merged current GDB main branch into my local branch. It builds but doesn't work yet.
# GDB Upstream
- Reviewed patch series "[PATCH v3 0/4] Dynamic properties of pointers".
- Investigated upstream bugzilla "18898 - Cannot specify non-default list of directories as argument of --with-auto-load-dir on Windows", but concluded it's an autoconf limitation that isn't easy to fix.
# Misc
- Prepared for Linaro's Employees Meeting. - Attended GNU Tools Cauldron. - Took a few days of vacation.