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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 5 and 6 2016.05 snapshots
Yvan Roux
2016-05-12 19:17:15 UTC
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The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.05 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+svn236106 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08
stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.05/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.1+svn236106

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn236108 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08
maintenance release.

This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.05/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn236108
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/70711 Fix big-endian ARMv8.1-A builds
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/70044 -flto turns on
-fomit-frame-pointer
* Backport of [AArch32] Reduce size of arm1020e automaton
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix SIMD predicate
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix thinko in handling of
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer option
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Tests for arm_restrict_it patterns
in thumb2.md
* Backport of [Testsuite] gcc-dg: handle all return values when
shouldfail is set

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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.

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