Fedora 21 Update: binutils-2.24-32.fc21

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-9195
2015-05-30 09:33:41
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Name        : binutils
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2.24
Release     : 32.fc21
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:

Fixes compile time warnings encountered whilst building the binutils with a gcc 5.1 compiler
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 28 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-32
- Fix compile time warnings building with gcc 5.1.
- Resolves: BZ #1224187
* Mon Apr 27 2015 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-31
- Require the coreutils so that touch is available.
- Resolves: BZ #1215242
* Thu Nov 13 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-30
- Fix problems with the ar program reported in FSF PR 17533.
  Resolves: BZ #1162666, #1162655
* Thu Nov  6 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-29
- Fix seg-fault when adding symbols via a plugin.
  Resovles: BZ #1149660
* Fri Oct 31 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-28
- Remove bogus part of addr2line-dynsymtab.patch.
  Resovles: BZ #1157706
* Fri Oct 31 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-27
- Fix buffer overrun in ihex parser.
- Fix memory corruption in previous patch.
- Consoldiate corrupt handling patches into just one patch.
- Default strings command to using -a.
* Wed Oct 29 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-26
- Fix memory corruption bug introduced by the previous patch.
* Tue Oct 28 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-25
- Import patches for PR/17510 and PR/17512 to fix reading corrupt ELF binaries.
  Resolves: BZ #1157276, #1157277
* Mon Oct 27 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-24
- Import patch from mainline to fix seg-fault when reading corrupt group headers.
  Resolves: BZ #1157276, #11527277
* Fri Oct 24 2014 Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat.com> - 2.24-23
- Import patch from mainline to fix seg-fault when reading corrupt srec fields.
  Resolves: BZ #1156272
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