[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 5 and 6 2016.12 snapshots

[Yvan Roux]

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.12 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source
packages.

Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.2+svn243594 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2017.02
stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.12/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.2+svn243594
* Linaro BZ #2575: backport from trunk r239561, r242555.
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/78041
* Backport of [Bugfix] Fix test names for trad.exp tests PR testsuite/78136
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR middle-end/78201
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/71636
* Backport of [AArch32] Implementing vmaxnmQ_ST and vminnmQ_ST intrinsincs
* Backport of [AArch64] aarch64-*-freebsd* support for gcc
* Backport of [AArch64] Add a SHA1H pattern
* Backport of [AArch64] Align FP callee-saves
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve stack adjustment
* Backport of [AArch64] Improve stack adjustment: add testcase
* Backport of [Cleanup] Fix typo in name
* Backport of [Cleanup] Remove all uses of
TARGET_FLT_EVAL_METHOD_NON_DEFAULT and poison it
* Backport of [Cleanup] Remove redundant TARGET_VFP
* Backport of [Misc] Optimize strchr to strlen (1/2)
* Backport of [Misc] Optimize strchr to strlen (2/2)
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix failing vminnm/vmaxnm test on ARM
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] FP16 ARM Alternative format
variants of AAPCS tests
* Backport of [Testsuite] Fix traditional cpp test failure
* Backport of [Testsuite] Report DejaGnu ERROR messages in compare_tests
* Backport of [Testsuite] Report DejaGnu ERROR messages in dg-extract-results
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] Remove redundant model field from
FPU descriptions
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] Use VAR_P
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] aarch64-c.o should depend on TARGET_H
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Add a comment before each set of cores
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Add function comments to some
prologue/epilogue helpers
* Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Cleanup add expander

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.4+svn243604 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/5.4-2016.12/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.4+svn243604
* Linaro BZ #2575: backport from trunk r232812.

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