Recommended update for gdb

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:3154-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Development Tools Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

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:

  • Development Tools Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-2018-2233=1

Package List:

  • 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

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