B.5. Changes in dwz

Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 is distributed with dwz 0.11, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the version included in Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1. Below is a comprehensive list of changes in this release.

B.5.1. Changes Since Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1

The following features have been added since the release of dwz included in Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1:
  • The DW_FORM_data4, DW_FORM_data8, and DW_AT_high_pc attributes have been optimized.
  • The dwz utility now allocates more memory when recomputing abbreviations and no longer terminates unexpectedly.
  • The dwz utility no longer crashes when processing debugging information that contains several copies of the same Debugging Information Entry (DIE) within the same compilation unit.
  • The dwz utility no longer writes an incorrect DW_FORM code for a compilation unit version.
  • The dwz utility now supports version 8 of the .gdb_index section.