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Red Hat Developer Toolset 8.1 Beta now available

Red Hat Developer Toolset 8.1 Beta now available

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By Mike Guerette

Red Hat Developer Toolset augments Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the latest, stable versions of GCC that install alongside the original base version. This version of Red Hat Developer Toolset 8.1 Beta includes the following new components:

  • GCC 8.2.1
  • GDB 8.2
  • binutils 2.30
  • elfutils 0.176
  • Valgrind 3.14.0

This Beta release is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures. It also supports the following architectures on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:  64-bit ARM, big- and little-endian variants of IBM POWER (), and IBM Z. See below for more information about each updated component.

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How to install GCC 8 and Clang/LLVM 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

How to install GCC 8 and Clang/LLVM 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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By Rob Terzi

There has been a lot of work to improve C/C++ compilers in recent years. A number of articles have been posted by Red Hat engineers working on the compilers themselves covering usability improvements, features to detect possible bugs, and security issues in your code.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta ships with GCC 8 as the default compiler. This article shows you how to install GCC 8 as well as Clang/LLVM 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. You’ll be able to use the same updated (and supported) compilers from Red Hat on both RHEL 7 and 8.

If you want your default gcc to always be GCC 8, or you want clang to always be in your path, this article shows how to permanently enable a software collection by adding it to the profile (dot files) for your user account. A number of common questions about software collections are also answered.

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GCC 8.2 now GA for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

GCC 8.2 now GA for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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By Mike Guerette

We are pleased to announce general availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 8 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.  The key new components for this release are:

  • GCC 8.2.1
  • GDB 8.2
  • Updated components such as SystemTap, Valgrind, OProfile, and many more

See the “New Features” section below for more details.

Like other tools, these are easily installable via yum, see How to install GCC 8 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  Red Hat Developer Toolset and Red Hat Software Collections are included in the no-cost developer subscription for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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Detecting String Truncation with GCC 8

Detecting String Truncation with GCC 8

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By Martin Sebor

Continuing in the effort to detect common programming errors, the just-released GCC 8 contains a number of new warnings as well as enhancements to existing checkers to help find non-obvious bugs in C and C++ code. This article focuses on those that deal with inadvertent string truncation and discusses some of the approaches for avoiding the underlying problems. If you haven’t read it, you might also want to read David Malcolm’s article Usability improvements in GCC 8.

To use GCC 8 on RHEL, see How to install GCC 8 and Clang/LLVM 6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.  GCC 8 is the default compiler in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta.

Why Is String Truncation a Problem?

It is well-known why buffer overflow is dangerous: writing past the end of an object can overwrite data in adjacent storage, resulting in data corruption. In the most benign cases, the corruption can simply lead to incorrect behavior of the program. If the adjacent data is an address in the executable text segment, the corruption may be exploitable to gain control of the affected process, which can lead to a security vulnerability. (See CWE-119 for more on buffer overflow.)

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