RHBA-2017:3250 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated devtoolset-6-gdb packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Developer Toolset 6.

Description

The GNU Debugger (GDB) allows users to debug programs written in various programming languages including C, C++, and Fortran. The devtoolset-6-gdb packages provide the Red Hat Developer Toolset version of GDB.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, when the "-gsplit-dwarf" option (DWO) was used during compilation with the GCC compiler, the GDB debugger did not recognize strings of the "DW_FORM_GNU_str_index" form in the resulting debug information files. As a consequence, GDB could not find source files and display symbol names for programs compiled using DWO. GDB has been extended to recognize the "DW_FORM_GNU_str_index" form of DWARF string attributes. As a result, debugging of programs works correctly regardless of whether they are compiled using DWO or not. (BZ#1507150)

Users of devtoolset-6-gdb are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.3 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1507150 - gdb can't find source with DebugFission (-gsplit-dwarf)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)