The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2016.12 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 6 source package.
This monthly snapshot1 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 stable2 quarterly release.
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 ½
- 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
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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.