Fedora 17 Update: gdb-7.4.50.20120120-49.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-9456
2012-06-15 11:53:31
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Name        : gdb
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 7.4.50.20120120
Release     : 49.fc17
URL         : http://gnu.org/software/gdb/
Summary     : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Fortran 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.

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Update Information:

Support DW_OP_GNU_parameter_ref for -O2 -g inferiors (BZ 827375).

[ppc] Fix hardware watchpoints on PowerPC (BZ 827600, Edjunior Machado).

Workaround PR libc/14166 for inferior calls of strstr.

Update auto-load behavior to not diverge from upstream.

Fix auto-loading of scripts if debug-file-directory contains multiple paths.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jun 14 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-49.fc17
- Support DW_OP_GNU_parameter_ref for -O2 -g inferiors (BZ 827375).
* Sat Jun  2 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-48.fc17
- [ppc] Fix hardware watchpoints on PowerPC (BZ 827600, Edjunior Machado).
* Mon May 28 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-47.fc17
- Workaround PR libc/14166 for inferior calls of strstr.
* Mon May 14 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-46.fc17
- [RHEL5] Workaround doc build race.
* Mon May 14 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-45.fc17
- Rename "set auto-load" patchset variable $ddir to $datadir.
* Wed May  9 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-44.fc17
- Fix in "set auto-load" patchset for SCL scripts inheritance (BZ 815910).
* Wed Apr 25 2012 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 7.4.50.20120120-43.fc17
- [RHEL5] Workaround kernel for detaching SIGSTOPped processes (BZ 809382).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #827375 - Unhandled dwarf expression opcode 0xfa - DW_OP_GNU_parameter_ref
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827375
  [ 2 ] Bug #827600 - GDB hardware watchpoints not working on Fedora 17
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827600
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