Fedora 18 Update: binutils-2.23.51.0.1-10.fc18

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-11498
2013-06-23 02:53:24
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Name        : binutils
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.23.51.0.1
Release     : 10.fc18
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/binutils
Summary     : A GNU collection of binary utilities
Description :
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for
creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU
assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the
GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for
copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying
information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for
the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed
information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes
of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings
from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for
converting addresses to file and line).

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Update Information:

Allows the binutils to cope with files whose debug information has been placed into a separate file via the use of the DWZ program.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jun 10 2013 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-10
- Add support for the alternative debuging files generated by the DWZ program.  (#965255)
* Tue May 14 2013 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> 2.23.51.0.1-9
- Fix stub lookups for PPC64.  (#962469)
* Thu Feb  7 2013 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> 2.23.51.0.1-8
- Prevent a seg-fault in readelf when examining a corrupt archive.  (#908567)
* Mon Feb  4 2013 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> 2.23.51.0.1-7
- Don't error when elf_gc_sweep_symbol clears def_regular.  (#906273)
* Thu Jan 24 2013 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> 2.23.51.0.1-6
- Allow more whitespace in ARM instructions.  (#892261)
* Wed Nov  7 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> 2.23.51.0.1-5
- Fix segfault with local ifunc symbols on s390[x].  (#805107).
* Tue Sep  4 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> 2.23.51.0.1-4
- Correctly handle PLTOFF relocs for s390 IFUNCs.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #965255 - binutils can't cope with dwz's output
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965255
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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