-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-7050 2008-08-07 21:17:45 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gdb Product : Fedora 9 Version : 6.8 Release : 17.fc9 URL : http://gnu.org/software/gdb/ Summary : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages Description : GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their data. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fix powerpc stepping over a shared library function call. Fix register assignments with no GDB stack frames, from Denys Vlasenko. Fix `errno' printing from nonthreaded non-g3 debuggees. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Aug 4 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-17 - Fix `errno' printing on nonthreaded non-g3 inferiors (TLS minsym is absolute). * Fri Aug 1 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-16 - Remove the `original-location' patch as it has testsuite regressions. * Fri Aug 1 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-15 - Fix register assignments with no GDB stack frames, Denys Vlasenko (BZ 436037). * Fri Jul 25 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-14 - Backpoint `original-location' for multi-PC breakpoints (for Nemiver). - Include _default_patch_fuzz for builds on F-10. * Fri Jul 25 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-13 - Fix powerpc recent secure PLTs handling (shared library calls) (BZ 452960). - Fix the testsuite .spec runner to run biarch also on ppc. - Reenable testcases threadcrash.exp, chng-syms.exp, checkpoint.exp (BZ 207002). * Thu Jul 24 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-12 - Temporarily disable attaching to a stopped process (BZ 453688) - To be reintroduced after a fix of the kernel BZ 454404. * Tue Jul 8 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-11 - Fix crash due to calling an inferior function right after a watchpoint stop. * Sun Jun 1 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-10 - Fix crash on a watchpoint update on an inferior stop. - Fix the s390x part of the hardware watchpoints after a fork. * Thu May 22 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-9 - Fix memory trashing on binaries from GNAT/Ada (workaround GCC PR 35998). * Thu May 15 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-8 - Silence memcpy check which returns false positive (sparc64) * Thu May 15 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-7 - patch from DaveM for sparc/sparc64 - touch up spec to enable sparcv9/sparc64 * Sat May 3 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-6 - Fix gdb.base/gcore-shmid0.exp to be unresolved on recent kernels. - Make the testsuite results of dfp-test.exp more stable. * Sun Apr 27 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-5 - Remove the kernel VDSO workaround (`no loadable ...') (kernel BZ 312011). * Wed Apr 23 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-4 - Backport fix on various forms of threads tracking across exec() (BZ 442765). - Testsuite: Include more biarch libraries on %{multilib_64_archs}. - Disable the build-id warnings for the testsuite run as they cause some FAILs. - Fix PIE support for 32bit inferiors on 64bit debugger. - Fix trashing memory on one ada/gnat testcase. - Make the testsuite results on ada more stable. * Wed Apr 16 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-3 - Fix ia64 compilation errors (Yi Zhan, BZ 442684). - Fix build on non-standard rpm-devel includes (Robert Scheck, BZ 442449). - Do not run the PIE mode for the testsuite during `--with upstream'. - Fix test of the crash on a sw watchpoint condition getting out of the scope. * Fri Apr 11 2008 Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 6.8-2 - Fix a regression due to PIE of reloading a changed exec file (BZ 433410). - Include also biarch libgcc on %{multilib_64_archs} for the testsuite. - Cosmetic fix of a testcase sanity breakpoint setting (part of BZ 233852). - New test of hiding unexpected breakpoints on intentional step commands. - New test of GCORE for shmid 0 shared memory mappings. - New test of a crash on `focus cmd', `focus prev' commands. - Fix a minor test race of the hardware watchpoints after the fork call. - Test crash on a sw watchpoint condition getting out of the scope. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #452960 - gdb can't single step on powerpc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452960 [ 2 ] Bug #436037 - gdb remote fails qemu: "Value being assigned to is no longer active" https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436037 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. 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