Fedora 19 Update: binutils-2.23.52.0.1-9.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-11457
2013-06-21 18:47:29
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Name        : binutils
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 2.23.52.0.1
Release     : 9.fc19
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 tools - especially objdump - to parse binaries that have had their debug information moved to a separate file via the dwz program.

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jun  4 2013 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.23.52.0.1-9
- Add support for the alternative debuging files generated by the DWZ program.  (#965255)
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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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