Fedora 8 Update: gdb-6.6-40.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-0646
2008-01-15 22:17:15
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Name        : gdb
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 6.6
Release     : 40.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:

Better compatibility with the threaded inferiors for staticaly built (-static) executables.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 10 2008 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> - 6.6-40
- Fix+test (backport) threading of statically linked inferiors (BZ 314131).
  - It requires recent glibc to work in this case properly.
* 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 #314131 - GDB issues error when debugging multiple threads
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=314131
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Updated packages:

055a11d6f0a98d8012f957d9673b91e5fad9a164 gdb-debuginfo-6.6-40.fc8.ppc64.rpm
ee2c65963b37dc807eaac7edbf488cd31349debb gdb-6.6-40.fc8.ppc64.rpm
a856feb89b86094457fddcf70e0b75cdf8c2838c gdb-6.6-40.fc8.i386.rpm
ba5004aed5cbc3bce03292d259b104acb889a995 gdb-debuginfo-6.6-40.fc8.i386.rpm
df200c45d7835cccfaba6ae88c3dbb8c8df3816b gdb-debuginfo-6.6-40.fc8.x86_64.rpm
a0eb9dcfd46d8dbfa4b8244532fa229c2465fcf7 gdb-6.6-40.fc8.x86_64.rpm
72824435e00683831b222eb0d240263f6d945743 gdb-debuginfo-6.6-40.fc8.ppc.rpm
17b6dbd03fe3d718122cfa7919f215cc1635ded1 gdb-6.6-40.fc8.ppc.rpm
7f92b34337308f0750072df2b8296e399b15545f gdb-6.6-40.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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