openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for gdb ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2017:2883-1 Rating: moderate References: #1056437 #1062315 #1062316 #1062318 #985550 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has 5 recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: The GNU Debugger GDB was updated to the 8.0.1 release, bringing lots of features and bugfixes. - Link gdb against a bundled libipt (processor trace library) on x86_64 and i686 for improved tracing support on Intel CPUs. [bsc#985550] - Rebase to 8.0.1 release (fixing PR21886, PR22046) - Updated libstdc++ pretty printers to gdb-libstdc++-v3-python-7.1.1-20170526.tar.bz2 . - Add support for zSeries z14 specific features [fate#321514, bsc#1062315, fate#322272, bsc#1062318] - Disable guile extensions for new distros, the gdb support is incompatible with guile 2.2. - Rebase to gdb 8.0 release: [fate#319573] * support for DWARF5 (except its .debug_names) * support C++11 rvalue references * support PKU register (memory protection keys on future Intel CPUs) * python scripting: - start, stop and access running btrace - rvalue references in gdb.Type * record/replay x86_64 rdrand and rdseed * removed support for GCJ compiled java programs * user commands accept more than 10 arguments * "eval" expands user-defined command arguments * new options: set/show disassembler-options (on arm, ppc s390) - Update to gdb 7.12.1 * negative repeat count for x examines backwards * fortran: support structs/arrays with dynamically types fields * support MPX bound checking * support for the Rust language * 'catch syscall' now can catch groups of related syscalls * New (sub)commands: - skip {-file,-gfile,-function,-rfunction}: generic skip mechanism - maint {selftest,info line-table} - new-ui: create new user interface for GUI clients * (fast) tracepoints on s390x and ppc64le added to gdbserver * New target Andes NDS32 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Leap 42.2: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2017-1212=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64): gdb-8.0.1-18.3.1 gdb-debuginfo-8.0.1-18.3.1 gdb-debugsource-8.0.1-18.3.1 gdb-testresults-8.0.1-18.3.1 gdbserver-8.0.1-18.3.1 gdbserver-debuginfo-8.0.1-18.3.1 References: https://bugzilla.suse.com/1056437 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062315 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062316 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1062318 https://bugzilla.suse.com/985550