1.16.1. RHBA-2011:0614: bug fix and enhancement update
Updated binutils packages that fix bugs and add various enhancements are now available.
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), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), 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).
These updated binutils packages provide fixes for the following bugs:
fix strip to keep the address of an empty section consistent with its offset in the object (
BZ#614443)
fix if one of the input files is of a non-ELF format the linker may crash (
BZ#680143)
This update also adds these enhancements:
add support for the large code model on PowerPC (
BZ#663587)
add support for ELF core dump notes sections for extra s390 registers (
BZ#633448)
add support for the new instructions in the System z196 processor (
BZ#631540)
add support for ELF objects with more then 65535 program headers (
BZ#578661)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated binutils packages, which resolve these issues.
