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shield Recommended update for gdb
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1166

GDB was updated to version 7.11.1, which brings several fixes and enhancements: - Per-inferior thread numbers. - Breakpoint "explicit locations" (via CLI and GDB/MI). - New convenience variables ($_gthread, $_inferior). - Record btrace now supports non-stop mode. - Various improvements on AArch64 GNU/Linux: - multi-architecture debugging support. - displaced stepping. - tracepoint support added in GDBserver. - reverse debugging. - In Ada, the overloads selection menu provides the parameter types and return types for the matching overloaded subprograms. - Various remote protocol improvements, including several new packets which can be used to support features such as follow-exec-mode, exec catchpoints, syscall catchpoints, etc. - Some minor improvements in the Python API for extending GDB. - New commands or subcommands: - info os cpu, set/show serial parity, info dll - maint print symbol-cache/symbol-cache-statistics, maint flush-symbol-cache - record btrace bts, record bts - compile print - show/set mpx bound - tui enable/disable - record btrace pt, record pt - maint info btrace, maint btrace packet-history/clear-packet-history/clear - s390 support for vector ABI. - "set sysroot" improvements related to remote targets. - Better support for debugging containerized programs (without "set sysroot"). - HISTSIZE environment variable is replaced by GDBHISTSIZE. - Python scripting: - it's possible to write frame unwinders - several new methods in Objfile, Type and Value classes - gdb can auto-load scripts contained in special sections named '.debug_gdb_scripts'. - Extensions for the MI interface, new remote packet types.

  • Release Date
    Aug 8 2016
  • References
    Bugzilla: 990697, 974419, 971556
  • Type
    recommended
  • Severity
    low

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12.1 x86_64
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    A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Fortran and other languages
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.1 s390x
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    A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Fortran and other languages
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.1 ppc64le
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    gdb
    A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Fortran and other languages
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