openSUSE Recommended Update: gdb: update to the 7.5.1 final release ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2013:0311-1 Rating: low References: #766311 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. Description: gdb was updated to 7.5.1: 7.5.1 gives: * An "Attempt to dereference a generic pointer" errors (-var-create). * Backtrace problems on x32 (PR backtrace/14646). * next/step/finish problems on x32 (PR gdb/14647). * A "malformed linespec error: unexpected keyword, [...]" error (PR breakpoints/14643). * GDB crash while stepping through powerpc (32bits) code. * A failed assertion in linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx. * A "!frame_id_inlined_p (frame_id)" failed assertion. * A "No more reverse-execution history." error during reverse "next" execution (PR 14548). * Incomplete command descriptions in "apropos" output. * PR gdb/14494 (a GDB crash difficult to characterize). 7.5 gives: * Go language support. * New targets (x32 ABI, microMIPS, Renesas RL78, HP OpenVMS ia64). * More Python scripting improvements. * SDT (Static Defined Tracing) probes support with SystemTap probes. * GDBserver improvements (stdio connections, target-side evaluation of breakpoint conditions, remote protocol improvements). * Other miscellaneous improvements (ability to stop when a shared library is loaded/unloaded, dynamic printf, etc). * Reverse debugging on ARM. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2013-132 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.2 (i586 x86_64): gdb-7.5.1-2.5.1 gdb-debuginfo-7.5.1-2.5.1 gdb-debugsource-7.5.1-2.5.1 gdbserver-7.5.1-2.5.1 gdbserver-debuginfo-7.5.1-2.5.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/766311