Fedora 8 Update: gdb-6.6-39.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-0080
2008-01-03 00:57:01
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Name        : gdb
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 6.6
Release     : 39.fc8
URL         : http://gnu.org/software/gdb/
Summary     : A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages
Description :
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++,
Java, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion
and printing their data.

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Update Information:

Fix PowerPC failure to continue 32-bit PIE (position-independent-executable) programs (such as named).

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 27 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-39
- Fix (backport) PPC biarch (ppc64->ppc) addresses above 2GB (BZ 426613).
- Fix the vendora testcase `attach-32.exp' affecting the other tests results.
* Sat Dec 22 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-38
- Fix crash on parsing duplicite file entries debug info (BZ 426395).
- Fix (#2) readline history for input mode commands like `command' (BZ 215816).
- Fix documentation on hardware watchpoints wrt multiple threads.
- Rename the patch file for BZ 235197 from its former name BZ 234468.
* Mon Dec 10 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-37
- Testsuite fixes for more stable/comparable results.
* Thu Nov  8 2007 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-36
- Fix `errno' resolving on glibc with broken DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name.
- Imported 6.7 PPC hiding of call-volatile parameter registers.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #426613 - named stops responding
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426613
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Updated packages:

010de54b6faaad9a28772a860bae1b0ddc977cff gdb-debuginfo-6.6-39.fc8.ppc64.rpm
2746fc0477eb4601e9b3d61b725254d11dbcd56b gdb-6.6-39.fc8.ppc64.rpm
c6e987fb26ee90c688e8fbd20bfb94a59508403d gdb-debuginfo-6.6-39.fc8.i386.rpm
e70e54b280652a5994a772c2c41ec1877bc20282 gdb-6.6-39.fc8.i386.rpm
2d2eaa230a88c84c1b273794b1e1ca47af47498b gdb-debuginfo-6.6-39.fc8.x86_64.rpm
937cf284736ec79971c4d19367fb934f08691e60 gdb-6.6-39.fc8.x86_64.rpm
7980bead678e0e22e3144dc31a0b7696287e73a1 gdb-debuginfo-6.6-39.fc8.ppc.rpm
c270d91776afa6e6da362b1ea1f0bb1859d8ba9f gdb-6.6-39.fc8.ppc.rpm
cdfdad18e487f8dd0f0c178e03167c77109bb693 gdb-6.6-39.fc8.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gdb' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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