[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release-Candidate GCC 6.1-2016.08-rc2

[Ryan Arnold]

The Linaro Binary Toolchain
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The Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08-rc2 Release-Candidate is now available.

The GCC 6 Release series has significant changes from the GCC 5
release series. For an explanation of the changes please see the
following website:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html
For help in porting to GCC 6 please see the following explanation:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html

Download release-candidate packages from:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08-rc2/
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.1-2016.08-rc2/

Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/

Previous releases are at:

http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/

Host Requirements
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Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS
releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that
the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See
the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a
minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API.

https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869

Package Versions
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Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08-rc2

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08-rc2/

FSF glibc 2.23 (linaro/2.23)

https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html

Linaro newlib 2.4.0-2016.03 (linaro-2.4-branch)

Linaro binutils 2.27 (linaro_binutils-2_27-branch)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=binutils/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_27

FSF GDB 7.11 (binutils-gdb.git~gdb-7.11-branch)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-02/msg00010.html

Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:

http://git.linaro.org/?a=project_list&s=toolchain%2F&btnS=Search

NEWS for Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08-rc2
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* Copy the libwinpthread DLL into the bin directories so it gets into
the tmp directory before tar is run.

https://review.linaro.org/#/c/13723/

* Include GNU Assembler fix for PR 20364

commit 5fe7ebe5ab43750abf8f490b785d99a1e598e7fd
Author: Nick Clifton <***@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Aug 5 10:37:57 2016 +0100
Fix the generation of alignment frags in code sections for AArch64.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20364

* Performance related backports from Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, and Linaro
GCC 6.1-2016.07 have been included.

See the following Linaro GCC snapshots:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.06/
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.07/


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