Fedora 9 Update: binutils-2.18.50.0.6-7.fc9

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-1239
2009-02-05 01:16:08
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Name        : binutils
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.18.50.0.6
Release     : 7.fc9
URL         : http://sources.redhat.com/binutils
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).

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Update Information:

Fix non-fatal error generating .eh_frame_hdr from C++ object files with removed
sections (such as common type instances).  This is a second part of the fix -
also for exceptions-catching frames.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb  2 2009 Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil at redhat.com> 2.18.50.0.6-7
- Fix .eh_frame_hdr build also for .gcc_except_table LSDA refs (BZ 461675).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #461675 - Partial linking results in corrupt .eh_frame_hdr
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461675
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