Fedora 18 Update: binutils-2.23.51.0.1-6.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1543
2013-01-26 15:07:01
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Name        : binutils
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.23.51.0.1
Release     : 6.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:

This update enhances the ARM assembler to allow for more whitespace between various parts of an assembler instruction.
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ChangeLog:

* 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 #892261 - issues with binutils on ARM
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892261
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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