#1013: gdb-6.8-29.fc10 push for F10

[Fedora Release Engineering]

#1013: gdb-6.8-29.fc10 push for F10
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 Reporter:  jkratoch         |       Owner:  rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org
     Type:  task             |      Status:  new                            
Milestone:  Fedora 10 Final  |   Component:  other                          
 Keywords:                   |  
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 gdb-6.8-29.fc10 fixes primarily Bug 468266 which updates the old version
 of a Fedora specific patch to implement VLA (variable-length-arrays) and
 Fortran dynamic structures support.

 Another notable fix is for Bug 466901 fixing an upstream bug on a
 compatibility with prelink - which used by default in Fedora and probably
 not on other distros(?) as `bt full' common for the bugreports was broken
 due to it.  This fix has no regression risks.

 The VLA problem was present in whole F9 although neither in F8 nor
 upstream.  The fix was now also pushed for F9.

 Not accepting the change case:
 Some (IMO rare - only those containing code using variables length arrays
 array[some_variable] - and only some cases of the backtrace) backtraces
 which work with non-Fedora GDBs and F8 and earlier GDBs will crash GDB.

 The changes pass the full GDB testsuite and sure show no regressions.  The
 new packages also has more testcases to avoid such regression(s) in the
 future.  The new patch is really more safe on many places than the older
 variant.


 gdb-6.8-29.fc10 formal %changelog:
 {{{
 * Sun Nov 09 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.8-29
 - Fix more the variable-length-arrays support (BZ 468266, feature BZ
 377541).
 - Integrate the `bt full' protection (for BZ 466901) into the VLA patch.

 * Thu Nov 06 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.8-28
 - Fix the "never terminate `bt full'" patch false GCC warning / build
 error.

 * Thu Nov 06 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.8-27
 - Fix resolving of variables at locations lists in prelinked libs (BZ
 466901),
   bugreported by Michal Babej.
 - Never terminate `bt full' on a problem of variable resolving (for BZ
 466901).

 * Thu Nov 06 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.8-26
 - Fix more the variable-length-arrays support (BZ 468266, feature BZ
 377541).
 - Fix the watchpoints conditionals.
 - Fix on PPC spurious SIGTRAPs on active watchpoints.
 - Fix occasional stepping lockup on many threads, seen on ia64.

 * Mon Nov 03 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.8-25
 - Fix the variable-length-arrays support (BZ 468266, feature BZ 377541).
 - Fix the debuginfo-install suggestions for missing base packages (BZ
 467901),
   also update the rpm/yum code to no longer require _RPM_4_4_COMPAT.
 }}}

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