--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Testing Update Notification FEDORA-2003-021 2003-11-24 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : binutils Version : 2.14.90.0.6 Release : 4 Summary : A GNU collection of binary utilities. Description : Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
--------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
An assembler parsing bug has been discovered in binutils released in Fedora Core 1. The bug affects at least Linux kernel versions 2.5.63 and later, where nr_syscalls=(.-sys_call_table)/4 line set nr_syscalls incorrectly to (.-sys_call_table) when assembled by binutils 2.14.90.0.1 and later. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Mon Nov 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com 2.14.90.0.6-4
- fix assembly parsing of foo=(.-bar)/4 (Alan Modra) - fix IA-64 assembly parsing of (p7) hint @pause
--------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/
355ffee1708b6d8547fd0b136532dbf8 SRPMS/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-4.src.rpm 26163d08b73f806be19ecb591cb2641a i386/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-4.i386.rpm ffe8dfebdb327df948fbef793d2bf94d i386/debug/binutils-debuginfo-2.14.90.0.6-4.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Jakub Jelinek