[DynInst_API:] New point release (8.1.2) of Dyninst Tool Suite

[Barton Miller <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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                               ANNOUNCING
                      Dyninst 8.1.2 Point Release

   Including ParseAPI, SymtabAPI, InstructionAPI, StackwalkerAPI,
   ProcControl, PatchAPI, and DynC_API.
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Highlights of this release:

General:
* Quite a few configure script fixes and improvements;
* A looping construct (while) added to Dyninst
* Fixed an infinite loop bug in the analysis stepper;
* Fixed several bugs with inserting libraries into statically linked code
* C++11x support (mutators must be built with appropriate flag!)
* Initial SystemTap support

Dyninst:
 * Deprecated BPatch_Set; use std::set instead
 * Added BPatch_whileExpr

Proccontrol:
 * Added Process::addLibrary to inject a library
 * Scalability improvements for ProcControlAPI on BlueGene/Q

Stackwalker:
 * Significant optimizations

ParseAPI:
 * Added Block::getInsn(Offset) and Block::getInsns to acquire IAPI
 * instructions from ParseAPI
 * Improved tail call parsing

InstructionAPI:
 * SSE3/4.1/4.2 support (thanks to Mouhamed Gouye @ Bull)

SymtabAPI:
* Fedora 18 dwarf parsing support

Note that all Dyninst code is open source, released under the GNU LGPL.

And thank you to Red Hat for hosting the Linux RPMs.

For information about these software releases and manuals, please visit
      http://www.paradyn.org/
Downloads: http://www.paradyn.org/html/downloads.html
Manuals: http://www.paradyn.org/html/manuals.html