[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 5 and 6 2017.04 snapshots

[Yvan Roux]

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2017.04 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source
packages.

Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.3+svn246668 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2017.05
stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.04/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.3+svn246668
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/71436: Restrict
*load_multiple pattern till after LRA
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/79911: Invalid vec_select arguments
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/79889: Error message on
target attribute on aarch64
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/79913: VEC_SELECT bugs in
aarch64 patterns
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/79925: tweaks to quoting in
error messages
* Backport of [AArch32] Fix small multiply feature
* Backport of [AArch64] Enable AES fusion with -mcpu=generic
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix bootstrap due to wide_int .elt (0) uninit warning
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix incorrect INS in SIMD mov pattern
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix search_line_fast for aarch64/ILP32
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix typo in aarch64.opt (dummping -> dumping)
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve cost model for ThunderX2 CN99xx
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve generic branch cost
* Backport of [AArch64] more poly64 intrinsics and tests
* Backport of [AArch64] Use 'x' constraint for vector HFmode
multiplication by indexed element instructions

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.4+svn246667 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the next
maintenance release.

This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2017.04/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.4+svn246667

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[1] Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only
put through unit-testing and full validation is not performed.
[2] Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the
full Linaro Toolchain validation plan is executed.