[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 5 and 6 2016.10 snapshots

[Yvan Roux]

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.10 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source
packages.

Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.1+svn241214 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.11
stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.10/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.2+svn241214
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR libgcc/77519: Correct libgcc complex
multiply excess precision handling
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR target/63250: Enable HCmode multiply and
divide (mulhc3/divhc3)
* Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Add qdf24xx base tuning support
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 1/17 Add ARMv8.2-A command line
option and profile
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 2/17 [testsuite] Add a selector for
ARM FP16 alternative format support.
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 3/17 [testsuite] Add ARM support for
ARMv8.2-A with FP16 arithmetic instructions
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 4/17 Define feature macros for FP16
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 5/17 Enable HI mode moves for
floating point values
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 6/17 Add data processing intrinsics
for float16_t
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 7/17 Add FP16 data movement instructions
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 8/17 Add VFP FP16 arithmetic instructions
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 9/17 Add NEON FP16 arithmetic instructions
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 10/17 Refactor support code for NEON builtins
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 11/17 Add builtins for VFP FP16 intrinsics
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 12/17 Add builtins for NEON FP16 intrinsics
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 13/17 Add VFP FP16 instrinsics
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 14/17 Add NEON FP16 instrinsics
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 15/17 Add tests for ARMv8.2-A FP16 support
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 16/17 Add tests for VFP FP16 ACLE instrinsics
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] 17/17 Add tests for NEON FP16 ACLE intrinsics
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] Delete one redundant word in
target-supports.exp comment
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] Enable mov[hsd]i_movw tests on ARM
and big endian
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] Fix invalid instructions generated
for data movement.
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] Fix invalid instructions generated
for data movement.
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8.2] Fix new constraints and attributes
of SI/HI data movement patterns
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Add support for ARMv8-M
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Add support for CB(N)Z and (U|S)DIV
to ARMv8-M Baseline
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Add support for MOVT/MOVW to ARMv8-M Baseline
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Check CLZ availability with ISA
support and architecture level macros
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Enable atomics for ARMv8-M Mainline
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Factor out MOVW/MOVT availability
and desirability checks
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Fix indentation of FL_FOR_ARCH*
definition after adding support for ARMv8-M
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Fix pr42574.c selector syntax error
* Backport of [AArch32] [ARMv8-M] Fix Thumb-1 only == ARMv6-M &
Thumb-2 only == ARMv7-M assumptions
* Backport of [AArch32] Fix RTL checking failure in Thumb mode
* Backport of [AArch64] Add __artificial__ attribute to Aarch64 NEON intrinsics
* Backport of [AArch64] Add missing attributes to arm_neon.h
* Backport of [AArch64] Add more NEON intrinsics vmaxnm_f64,
vminnm_f64, vmax_f64, vmin_f64
* Backport of [AArch64] Add tunning of ldpw for THunderX
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix __builtin_aarch64_fmindf
* Backport of [AArch64] [ARMv8.2] 1/4 ARMv8.2-A FP16 testsuite selector
* Backport of [AArch64] [ARMv8.2] 2/4 ARMv8.2-A testsuite for new data
movement intrinsics
* Backport of [AArch64] [ARMv8.2] 3/4 ARMv8.2-A testsuite for new
vector intrinsics
* Backport of [AArch64] [ARMv8.2] 4/4 ARMv8.2-A testsuite for new
scalar intrinsics
* Backport of [Misc] Allow simple register subregs in noce_convert_multiple_sets
* Backport of [Misc] Fix native_encode_real for HFmode constants
* Backport of [Misc] Modify extend_mask to extend bits based on signop
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix prototype in vst1Q_laneu64-1.c
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] neon-testgen.ml removal
* Backport of [Cleanup] Fix typo in comment in tree-ssa-strlen.c

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.4+svn241215 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.11
maintenance release.

This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2016.10/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.4+svn241215

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