File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.2944

<patchinfo incident="2944">
  <issue id="990697" tracker="bnc">ARMv8.1/2 debuginfo support missing in gdb</issue>
  <issue id="974419" tracker="bnc">gdb transient build hang in gdb-orphanripper on Ring:1 for ppc64le</issue>
  <issue id="971556" tracker="bnc">gdb segfaults when examining a core file</issue>
  <category>recommended</category>
  <rating>low</rating>
  <packager>matz2</packager>
  <description>
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.
</description>
  <summary>Recommended update for gdb</summary>
</patchinfo>