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The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2016.09 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 6 source package.

This monthly snapshot1 is based on FSF GCC 6.2+svn239654 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.11 stable2 quarterly release.

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

  • Updates to GCC 6.2+svn239654
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/53440 Handle generic thunks better for TARGET_32BIT
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/59833 ARM soft-float extendsfdf2 fails to quiet signaling NaN
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/70473 Reduce size of Cortex-A8 automaton
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/71061 length pop* pattern in epilogue correctly
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/77281 Fix an invalid check for vectors of the same floating-point constants.
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR 64971 Convert function pointer to Pmode when emit call.
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR 70904 Relax the restriction on subreg reload for wide mode
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/63596 Honor tree-stdarg analysis result to improve VAARG codegen
  • Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/63874 vtable address generation goes through memory
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR 70751 Correct the cost for spilling non-pseudo into memory
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR 77421 Redundant second assignment of bb_copy = NULL in free_original_copy_tables
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR middle-end/37780 Conditional expression with __builtin_clz() should be optimized out
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR middle-end/68217 Wrong constant folding
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR middle-end/71700 zero-extend sub-word value when widening constructor element
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR rtl-optimization/66940 Avoid signed overflow in noce_get_alt_condition
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR rtl-optimization/71150 Guard in_class_p with REG_P check
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR rtl-optimization/71295
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR rtl-optimization/71594 ICE in noce_emit_cmove due to mismatched source modes
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR rtl-optimization/71878
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/61839 More optimize opportunity for VRP
  • Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/71818 ICE in as_a, at is-a.h:192 w/ -O2 -ftree-vectorize
  • Backport of [AArch32] Keep ctz expressions together until after reload
  • Backport of [AArch32] Add fcsel to Cortex-A57 scheduler
  • Backport of [AArch32] Add initial support for Cortex-A73
  • Backport of [AArch32] Add support for overflow add, sub, and neg operations
  • Backport of [AArch32] Add support for some ARMv8-A cores to driver-arm.c
  • Backport of [AArch32] arm_neon.h: s/__FAST_MATH/__FAST_MATH__/g
  • Backport of [AArch32] Emit vmov.i64 to load 0.0 into FP reg when neon enabled.
  • Backport of [AArch32] Enable __fp16 as a function parameter and return type
  • Backport of [AArch32] Fix aprofile multilib mappings
  • Backport of [AArch32] Fix predicable_short_it attribute for arm_movqi_insn
  • Backport of [AArch32] genmultilib: improve error reporting for MULTILIB_REUSE
  • Backport of [AArch32] improve Cortex-A53 integer scheduler
  • Backport of [AArch32] Model CSEL instruction in Cortex-A57 scheduling model
  • Backport of [AArch32] no-data-is-text-relative & msingle-pic-base
  • Backport of [AArch32] Refactor MOVW/MOVT fusion logic to allow extension
  • Backport of [AArch32] Replace uses of int_log2 by exact_log2
  • Backport of [AArch32] Update documentation for ARM architecture
  • Backport of [AArch32] Use a MULTILIB_REQUIRED approach for aprofile multilib
  • Backport of [AArch64] 1/2 Add support INS (element) instruction to copy lanes between vectors
  • Backport of [AArch64] 2/2 (Re)Implement vcopy_lane intrinsics
  • Backport of [AArch64] 1/2 Improve zero extend
  • Backport of [AArch64] 2/2 Improve zero extend
  • Backport of [AArch64] 1/3 Migrate aarch64_add_constant to new interface & kill aarch64_build_constant
  • Backport of [AArch64] 2/3 Optimize aarch64_add_constant to generate better addition sequences
  • Backport of [AArch64] 3/3 Migrate aarch64_expand_prologue/epilogue to aarch64_add_constant
  • Backport of [AArch64] 1/6 Reimplement scalar fixed-point intrinsics
  • Backport of [AArch64] 2/6 Reimplement vector fixed-point intrinsics
  • Backport of [AArch64] 3/6 Reimplement frsqrte intrinsics
  • Backport of [AArch64] 4/6 Reimplement frsqrts intrinsics
  • Backport of [AArch64] 5/6 Reimplement fabd intrinsics & merge rtl patterns
  • Backport of [AArch64] 6/6 Reimplement vpadd intrinsics & extend rtl patterns to all modes
  • Backport of [AArch64] Accept vulcan as a cpu name for the AArch64 port of GCC
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add ANDS pattern for CMP+ZERO_EXTEND
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add commit message
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add initial support for Cortex-A73
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add legitimize_address_displacement hook
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add more choices for the reciprocal square root approximation
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add rtx_costs routine for vulcan
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add some more missing intrinsics
  • Backport of [AArch64] Add ThunderX vector cost model
  • Backport of [AArch64] Allow multiple-of-8 immediate offsets for TImode LDP/STP
  • Backport of [AArch64] Canonicalize Cortex core tunings
  • Backport of [AArch64] Cleanup -mpc-relative-loads
  • Backport of [AArch64] Define WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS to zero and comment why
  • Backport of [AArch64] Emit division using the Newton series
  • Backport of [AArch64] Emit square root using the Newton series
  • Backport of [AArch64] Enable tree-stdarg pass for AArch64 by defining counter fields
  • Backport of [AArch64] Fix typo in aarch64_legitimize_address
  • Backport of [AArch64] Fixup to fcvt patterns added in r237200
  • Backport of [AArch64] Fix vld2/3/4 on big endian systems
  • Backport of [AArch64] Give some new costs for Cortex-A53 floating-point operations
  • Backport of [AArch64] Give some new costs for Cortex-A57 floating-point operations
  • Backport of [AArch64] Handle AND+ASHIFT form of UBFIZ correctly in costs
  • Backport of [AArch64] Handle iterator definitions with conditionals in geniterator.sh
  • Backport of [AArch64] Improve aarch64_modes_tieable_p
  • Backport of [AArch64] Increase code alignment
  • Backport of [AArch64] Keep CTZ components together until after reload
  • Backport of [AArch64] Optimize prolog/epilog
  • Backport of [AArch64] Remove aarch64_cannot_change_mode_class
  • Backport of [AArch64] Remove spurious attribute unused from NEON intrinsic
  • Backport of [AArch64] Renaming ARMv8.1 to ARMv8.1-A in comments and documentations
  • Backport of [AArch64] Replace insn to zero up SIMD registers
  • Backport of [AArch64] update vulcan L1 cacheline size
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 10/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 lane scalar intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 1/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 data processing intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 2/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 one operand vector intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 3/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 two operands vector intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 4/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 three operands vector intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 5/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 lane vector intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 6/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 reduction vector intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 7/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 one operand scalar intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 8/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 two operands scalar intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] 9/10 ARMv8.2-A FP16 three operands scalar intrinsics
  • Backport of [ARMv8.2] [AArch64] ARMv8.2 command line and feature macros support
  • Backport of [Misc] 1/2 Move choose_mult_variant declaration and dependent declarations to expmed.h
  • Backport of [Misc] 2/2 Hook up mult synthesis logic into vectorisation of mult-by-constant
  • Backport of [Misc] Append “evaluates to 0” for Wundef diagnostic
  • Backport of [Misc] Avoid unnecessary peeling for gaps with LD3
  • Backport of [Misc] Check for POINTER_TYPE_P before accessing SSA_NAME_PTR_INFO in tree-inline
  • Backport of [Misc] Disable ifunc on *-musl by default
  • Backport of [Misc] Disable setting param of __builtin_constant_p to null
  • Backport of [Misc] Don’t count spilling cost for it offmemok
  • Backport of [Misc] Don’t use section anchors for declarations that don’t fit in a single anchor range
  • Backport of [Misc] Fix ChangeLog entry
  • Backport of [Misc] Fix GROUP_GAP for single-element interleaving
  • Backport of [Misc] Fix unused variable warning in simplify_cond_clz_ctz on some targets
  • Backport of [Misc] Increase alignment of global structs in increase_alignment pass
  • Backport of [Misc] Latent alignment bug in tree-ssa-address.c
  • Backport of [Misc] Report supported function classes correctly on *-musl
  • Backport of [Testsuite] 29_atomics/atomic/65913.cc: require atomic-builtins rather than specific target
  • Backport of [testsuite] [AArch32] Add missing guards to fp16 AdvSIMD tests
  • Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix, add tests for FP16 aapcs
  • Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix dg-do and dg-skip order
  • Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] gcc.target/arm/pr37780_1.c: Use arm_arch_v6t2 effective target and options
  • Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Make arm_neon_fp16 depend on arm_neon_ok
  • Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Selectors and options directives for ARM VFP FP16 support
  • Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Ensure vrnd* tests run on ARMv8 cores
  • Backport of [Testsuite] Add testcases
  • Backport of [testsuite] asan/clone-test-1.c: Handle clone() failure
  • Backport of [Testsuite] Fix testcases
  • Backport of [Testsuite] Use setrlimit for testing libstdc++ in cross toolchains
  • Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] 2/4 Replace casts of 1 to HOST_WIDE_INT by HOST_WIDE_INT_1 and HOST_WIDE_INT_1U
  • Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] 3/4 Cleanup casts from INTVAL to [unsigned] HOST_WIDE_INT
  • Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] 4/4 Simplify checks for CONST_INT_P and comparison against 1/0
  • Backport of [cleanup] [AArch32] Delete thumb_reload_in_h
  • Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] Remove non-existent extern declarations in arm.h
  • Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] aarch64_elf_asm_named_section: Remove declaration.
  • Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Clean up parentheses and use GET_MODE_UNIT_BITSIZE in a couple of patterns
  • Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Remove static variable all_extensions from aarch64.c
  • Backport of [Cleanup] Cleanup frame push/pop code
  • Backport of [Cleanup] rtlanal.c: Convert conditional compilation on WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS
  • Backport of [Debug] ifcvt: Print name of noce trasform that succeeded in dump file

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