-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-0583 2010-01-15 21:20:38 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : elfutils Product : Fedora 11 Version : 0.144 Release : 1.fc11 URL : https://fedorahosted.org/elfutils/ Summary : A collection of utilities and DSOs to handle compiled objects Description : Elfutils is a collection of utilities, including ld (a linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strip (for discarding symbols), readelf (to see the raw ELF file structures), and elflint (to check for well-formed ELF files). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes several bugs in elfutils libraries and tools. It also adds the elf_getphdrnum function to libelf and the dwarf_aggregate_size function to libdw. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Jan 14 2010 Roland McGrath <[email protected]> - 0.144-1 - Update to 0.144 - libdw: New function dwarf_aggregate_size for computing (constant) type sizes, including array_type cases with nontrivial calculation. - readelf: Don't give errors for missing info under -a. Handle Linux "VMCOREINFO" notes under -n. - Resolves: RHBZ #527004, RHBZ #530704, RHBZ #550858 * Mon Sep 21 2009 Roland McGrath <[email protected]> - 0.143-1 - Update to 0.143 - libdw: Various convenience functions for individual attributes now use dwarf_attr_integrate to look up indirect inherited attributes. Location expression handling now supports DW_OP_implicit_value. - libdwfl: Support automatic decompression of files in XZ format, and of Linux kernel images made with bzip2 or LZMA (as well as gzip). * Tue Jul 28 2009 Roland McGrath <[email protected]> - 0.142-1 - Update to 0.142 - libelf: Bug fix in filling gaps between sections. (#512840) - libelf: Add elf_getshdrnum alias for elf_getshnum and elf_getshdrstrndx alias for elf_getshstrndx and deprecate original names. - libebl, elflint: Add support for STB_GNU_UNIQUE. (#511436) - readelf: Add -N option, speeds up DWARF printing without address->name lookups. (#505347) - libdw: Add support for decoding DWARF CFI into location description form. Handle some new DWARF 3 expression operations previously omitted. Basic handling of some new encodings slated for DWARF 4. * Thu Apr 23 2009 Roland McGrath <[email protected]> - 0.141-1 - Update to 0.141 - libebl: sparc backend fixes (#490585) some more arm backend support - libdwfl: fix dwfl_module_build_id for prelinked DSO case (#489439) fixes in core file support (#494858) dwfl_module_getsym interface improved for non-address symbols - eu-strip: fix infinite loop on strange inputs with -f - eu-addr2line: take -j/--section=NAME option for binutils compatibility (same effect as '(NAME)0x123' syntax already supported) - Resolves: RHBZ #495213, RHBZ #465872, RHBZ #470055, RHBZ #484623 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #527004 - eu-strip -g does not catch .debug_pubtypes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527004 [ 2 ] Bug #530704 - [PATCH] libelf: fix writing out files where some sections follow shdrs https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530704 [ 3 ] Bug #550858 - section [26] '.comment' has wrong flags: expected none, is MERGE|STRINGS https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550858 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
