Fedora 12 Update: elfutils-0.144-1.fc12

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0605
2010-01-15 21:21:14
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Name        : elfutils
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 0.144
Release     : 1.fc12
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).

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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.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 14 2010 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 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
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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
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update elfutils' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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