Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes:
> Unfortunately a bug in older versions of gdb means that they will > crash if QEMU sends them the aarch64-pauth.xml. This bug is fixed in > gdb commit 1ba3a3222039eb25, and there are plans to backport that to > affected gdb release branches, but since the bug affects gdb 9 > through 12 it is very widely deployed (for instance by distros). > > It is not currently clear what the best way to deal with this is; it > has been proposed to define a new XML feature name that old gdb will > ignore but newer gdb can handle. Since QEMU's 8.0 release is > imminent and at least one of our CI runners is now falling over this, > disable the pauth XML for the moment. We can follow up with a more > considered fix either in time for 8.0 or else for the 8.1 release. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Queued to pr/170323-for-8.0-1, thanks. -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
