Kernel 2.4 based: June 2003 stream

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gdb-5.3-s390-june2003.tar.gz / MD5 recommended (2003-06-30)

Category application development tool. Contains the GNU debugger. It can be used as an interactive symbolic debugger as well as a post-mortem debugger.

This patch is equivalent to gdb-5.3-s390-may2002 and contains the following debugger bug fixes:

Description:

Backtraces do not work in gcc 3.x optimized code

Symptom:

When debugging code compiled with gcc 3.x and optimization switched on, stack backtraces do not work.

Problem:

The gdb function prolog parser is confused by gcc 3.x generated code.

Solution:

Use DWARF-2 CFI data when present (gcc 3.3) to perform backtraces; for gcc 3.2 use an improved prolog parser.

Description:

The gdb commands print and call don't work properly on Linux for zSeries.

Symptom:

Several testcases for the gdb commands print and call of the gdb regression test suite fail on Linux for zSeries.

Problem:

The gdb source code does not implement the Linux for zSeries ELF ABI correctly

Solution:

Fix the ELF ABI implementation bugs.

Note: This patch changes gdb common code in a manner that might cause problems for other platforms. Use the debugger sources created by appyling this patch only to build a debugger for the s390 or s390x architectures.

To create the complete debugger sources, the following patches need to be applied in sequence:

gdb-5.3.tar.bz2 (GNU)
+ gdb-5.3-s390-june2003.diff (IBM)

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