Recommended update for gdb
Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2018:3154-1 |
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Rating: | moderate |
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An update that has one fix can now be installed.
Description:
This update for gdb fixes the following issues:
GDB was updated to the 8.2 release:
- 'symbol-file' and 'add-symbol-file' accept -o to add relative offset to all sections
- pager accepts 'c' response to disable it for rest of command
- accept _Alignof and alignof in C resp. C++ expressions
- new target riscv--elf
- python API extensions: gdb.Type.align, gdb.execute deals with multi-line gdb commands, gdb.convenience_variable and gdb.set_convenience_variable to access convenience variables,
- aarch64: properly support hardware watchpoints on unaligned addresses (needs kernel >= 4.10)
- Support access to new POWER8 registers [fate#325178, fate#326120]
- Support ipv6 for gdbserver connections.
- Update to intel processor trace library 2.0 (from 1.6.1):
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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Development Tools Module 15
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-2018-2233=1
Package List:
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Development Tools Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
- gdb-8.2-3.3.5
- gdbserver-debuginfo-8.2-3.3.5
- gdb-debugsource-8.2-3.3.5
- gdbserver-8.2-3.3.5
- gdb-debuginfo-8.2-3.3.5