The Linaro Binary Toolchain
============================
The Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.08 Release 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 packages from:
(sources)
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.08/
(binaries)
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.4-2017.08/
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/
A description of the arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at:
https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl…
Host Requirements
==================
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
=================
Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.08
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.08/
Linaro glibc 2.23 (linaro/2.23/master)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-02/msg00009.html
Linaro newlib 2.4-2016.03 (linaro_2.4-branch)
https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2016/msg00370.html
Linaro binutils 2.27 (linaro-local/linaro_binutils-2_27-branch)
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin…
Linaro GDB 8.0 (gdb-8.0-branch)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-10/msg00007.html
Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:
http://git.linaro.org/toolchain
NEWS for GCC 6 (as of Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.08)
==============================================
* Previous MinGW hosted version of Linaro GCC C preprocessor failed to
convert character set used for string, character constants, etc. This
is fixed in this release.
Linaro bugzilla #3040 : CC1 and cc1plus cannot convert UTF-8.
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3040
* The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05 snapshot added support for -mpure-code
option to ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M targets. This option ensures functions
are put into sections that contain only code and no data.
* The GDB version was upgraded from GDB 8.0.
* Previous versions of the Linaro GCC 6 toolchain, when -static
-E/—dynamic-list are passed to the linker, might create executables
with dynamic sections which aren’t supported by run-time. This was
exhibited in Perf Tools build system and has been fixed upstream and
backported into Linaro Binutils 2.27 branch.
Linaro bugzilla #2926 : Perf tools compiled statically for AArch64
with Linaro release 6.1 and later ones was not statically linked.
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2926
* The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03 snapshot fixed some ILP32 issues (TLS,
exception handling, …) and these have been incorporated into this
release.
* Previous versions of the Linaro GCC 6 toolchain were incorrectly
generating floating-point code for soft-float Linux targets
(arm-linux-gnueabi, and armeb-linux-gnueabi). This escaped detection
until recently because the soft-float targeted toolchains were
configured to use general-purpose registers for passing floating-point
values (which is what you would expect for soft-float toolchains) and
the intra-routine floating-code was not noticed.
The issue would only show up on targets that were run on hardware that
truly didn't have floating-point hardware where the kernel did not
trap and emulate floating-point routines. This has been solved in
Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02-rc2 by configuring the toolchain (using
--with-float=soft) to generate code without any floating-point
instructions at all (-mfloat-abi=soft).
https://review.linaro.org/#/c/16968/2
This change should not break compatibility between existing binaries
compiled with these toolchains since the float-point parameter passing
ABI is still the same.
* A bug/regression in the compiler has been identified whereby the
target function that is invoked when calling a "weak" function
directly is the "strong" override, whereas when calling the function
via a pointer the "weak" implementation is used. This would be
noticed as inconsistent function invocation when invoking directly vs.
invoking via function pointer. This issue only affected 32-bit arm
targets. This regression has been fixed upstream and backported into
Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02-rc2.
GCC PR target/78253: [5/6/7 Regression] [ARM] call weak function
instead of strong when called through pointer.
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78253
Linaro bugzilla #2562: ARM GCC 5.2 call weak function instead of
strong when called through pointer
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2562
* MS Windows does not support symlinks and the MS Windows archive
extractor does not properly deep copy the symlink target
files/directories into the symlinked directory structure when
unpacking the toolchain archive. This causes problems with missing
dependencies when using the Linaro mingw toolchains, as identified in
the following bugs:
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2684https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2192https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2762
This has been solved by copying files rather than using symlinks when
the mingw targetted toolchain archives are created.
https://review.linaro.org/#/c/16415/
* Users of Linaro's toolchain have encountered problems when building
projects with Autotools (specifically libtool):
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2764
The Linaro binary toolchain release contained files with a .la suffix
as artifacts of the toolchain build process. These .la files are
helper files for libtool, but unlike a gcc install tree, they are not
position independent and contain full paths. Since these artifacts
contain absolute paths they can actually mislead user invocation of
libtool into not finding required libraries (because they reference
the build tree, not the install location) and hence breaking Autotools
builds. These *.la file artifacts have been removed from Linaro
toolchain binaries because they are unnecessary for users.
* The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01 snapshot added further enablement for
ARMv8-M and these have been incorporated into this release.
* Compiling and statically linking some SPEC2006int tests against
tcmalloc have been failing due to a problem with glibc's memory
allocator function overrides. This was fixed upstream:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20432
Backported into Linaro glibc 2.23:
commit 058b5a41d56b9a8860dede14d97dd443792d064b
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com>
Date: Fri Aug 26 22:40:27 2016 +0200
malloc: Simplify static malloc interposition [BZ #20432]
* Host binaries for x86_64 linux hosts now have symbols and debug
information stripped in order to reduce the size of the toolchain
binary archives. This reduces the archive size from 1.5G to 600M for
aarch64-linux-gnu target with the gcc-6-branch.
* The GDB version was upgraded from GDB 7.11 in the Linaro GCC
6.1-2016.08 release to GDB 7.12 in the Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11 release.
* The Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10 snapshot added AArch32 support for ARMv8.2
and ARMv8m, as well as some AArch64 fixes for ARMv8.2, and bug fixes
merged from FSF GCC 6.2. This is available in the binary toolchain as
of Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11.
* Basic tuning support for the Qualcomm qdf24xx was added to the Linaro
GCC 6.2-2016.10 snapshot and is available in the binary toolchain as
of Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11.
* IFUNC was disabled for baremetal targets, as it was causing test-suite
failures, and is presently a Linux only feature.
* The gold linker was added to this binary release.
* Backported malloc_lock fix into Linaro newlib 2.4.
commit 2665915cfc46aa6403bb2efd473c523d3167e0cb
Author: Andre Vieira (lists) <Andre.SimoesDiasVieira(a)arm.com>
Date: Thu Jun 16 12:23:51 2016 +0100
Re-enable malloc_lock for newlib-nano
* Backported rawmemchr patch into Linaro newlib 2.4.
commit e7b1ee2ea6aa3ee1da41976407410e6202a098c5
Author: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra(a)arm.com>
Date: Thu May 12 16:16:58 2016 +0000
Add rawmemchr
* Backported strlen fix when using Thumb-2 and -Os -marm into Linaro
newlib 2.4.
commit 5c02bcc086a96b174e1b9e1445a4a1770070107a
Author: Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme(a)arm.com>
Date: Wed May 11 17:18:48 2016 -0400
Fix strlen using Thumb-2 with -Os -marm
* Backported fix for semihosting ARM when heapinfo not provided by
debugger into Linaro newlib 2.4.
commit 5c9403eaf40951f8a4f55ed65f661b485ff44be7
Author: David Hoover <spm2(a)dangerous.li>
Date: Thu Apr 21 07:12:24 2016 +0200
Fixed semihosting for ARM when heapinfo not provided by debugger.
* Merged latest FSF glibc release/2.23/master into Linaro glibc 2.23.
* Backported __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI check Linaro glibc 2.23 branch.
commit 2d20c3bf918cd94ebd4106693adb3a5c9272baba
Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org>
Date: Tue May 17 10:16:39 2016 -0300
Add runtime check for __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI (BZ# 18463)
* Backported removal of __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST from Linaro glibc 2.23
branch.
commit bb8f09d72756186a3d82a1f7b2adcf8bc1fbaed1
Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org>
Date: Mon May 16 19:01:10 2016 -0300
Remove __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST
* Backported removal of __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI from Linaro glibc 2.23
branch.
commit e48b4e7fed0de06dd7832ead48bea8ebc813a204
Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org>
Date: Mon May 16 10:35:25 2016 -0300
Remove __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI
* Merged latest FSF binutils-2_27-branch into
linaro_binutils-2_27-branch.
* The libwinpthread DLL is now copied into the host bin directory to
satisfy mingw package dependencies.
* Backported GNU Linker fix.
commit fbc6c6763e70cb2376e2de990c7fc54c0ee44a59
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com>
Date: Tue Aug 23 09:45:11 2016 +0100
Fix seg-fault in ARM linker when trying to parse a binary file.
* Backported GNU Assembler fix for PR 20364
commit 5fe7ebe5ab43750abf8f490b785d99a1e598e7fd
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc(a)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 the following snapshots have been
included: Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.07, Linaro GCC
6.1-2016.08, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.09, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10, Linaro
GCC 6.2-2016.11, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.12, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01,
Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03, Linaro GCC
6.3-2017.04, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.06 and Linaro
GCC 6.4-2017.07 .
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/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.09/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.10/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.11/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.12/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.01/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.02/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.03/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.04/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.05/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.06/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.07/
Contact Linaro
===============
File bugs at http://bugs.linaro.org
For Linaro member support see http://support.linaro.org
For Linaro community support email linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org
== This Week ==
* Type promotion (4/10)
- Looking at perf regressions on ppc64
- Enabling at -O2 with vrp removes some perf regressions
- Did benchmarking for code-size
- Issues with benchmarking for performance
* PR78809 (2/10)
- WIP patch
* PR78736 (1/10)
- Updated patch based on upstream feedback
* Public Holiday (2/10)
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- type-promotion, PR78736, PR78809
+linaro-toolchain, hoping to get more eyes into it.
cheers,
--renato
On 25 August 2017 at 17:59, Masaki Arai <masaki.arai(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I extended GCC 7.1(or GCC 7.2) for `hcqc'.
> I would be grateful if you could give me a comment about whether
> this extension is acceptable and whether this extension should be
> pushed upstream.
>
> The extended GCC's output using the option ` -fverbose-asm' is
> as follows:
>
> ldr w0, [x29,48] // tmp433, j(8-byte Folded Spill)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This code shows that this instruction accesses a memory area
> for spill codes.
> I made the following changes to GCC 7.1(or GCC 7.2).
> The related files are under `hcqc/patch/gcc-7.1.0-add'.
>
> (1) rtl.h
>
> I added flag information to `struct mem_attrs' that means whether
> it is a spill memory area or not.
>
> +
> + /* True if the MEM is for spill. */
> + bool for_spill_p;
>
> Also, I added an access macro for this additional field.
>
> + /* For a MEM rtx, true if its MEM is for spill. */
> + #define MEM_FOR_SPILL_P(RTX) (get_mem_attrs (RTX)->for_spill_p)
> +
>
> (2) emit-rtl.c
>
> I added a code to turn on flags for spill memory area in function
> `set_mem_attrs_for_spill'.
>
> + attrs.for_spill_p = true;
>
> (3) final.c
>
> I added code to print that information in function
> `output_asm_operand_names'
> if the memory is a spill memory area,
>
> +
> + if (MEM_P (op) && MEM_FOR_SPILL_P (op))
> + {
> + HOST_WIDE_INT size = MEM_SIZE (op);
> + fprintf (asm_out_file, " (" HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_DEC "-byte Folded
> Spill)", size);
> + }
>
> The above changes are implemented similarly as Clang/LLVM.
> Unfortunately, it is difficult for GCC to print the above "(?-byte Folded
> Spill)"
> for memory access instructions only in the same manner as Clang/LLVM.
> The reason is that GCC executes the above `output_asm_operand_names'
> even in situations where any instruction object(insn) does not exist when
> outputting assembly code.
> For example, GCC calls `output_asm_insn' directly from the `define_insn'
> definition in the aarch64.md file without an insn object(`output_asm_insn'
> calls `output_asm_operand_names').
> This occurs in "*cb<optab><mode>1" and
> "*aarch64_fcvt<su_optab><GPF:mode><GPI:mode>2_mult".
>
> From this fact, `hcqc' extracts and accumulates memory access
> instructions from the assembly code with the comment "(?-byte Folded
> Spill)".
>
> The above extensions are commonly available on almost any architecture.
> Also, these extensions do not affect the execution of the resulting assembly
> code since additional outputs are only in comments.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> --------------------------------------
> Masaki Arai
>
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2017.08
snapshot of Linaro GCC 6 and 7 source packages.
o The GCC 7 series introduced an ABI change for ARM targets by fixing a bug
(present since GCC 5, see link below) that affects conformance to the procedure
call standard (AAPCS). The bug affects some C++ code where class objects are
passed by value to functions and could result in incorrect or inconsistent code
being generated. If the option -Wpsabi is enabled (on by default) the compiler
will emit a diagnostic note for code that might be affected by this ABI change.
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77728
For an explanation of the changes please see the following website:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html
o Linaro GCC 7 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 7.2+svn251138 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC.
The contents of this snapshot will be part of the 2017.11 stable[2] quarterly
release.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.08/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 7.2+svn251138
* Backports from mainline:
- [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/79665: Improve Cortex-A53 shift bypass
- [Bugfix] PR lto/69866 lto1: internal compiler error: in
add_symbol_to_partition_1, at lto/lto-partition.c:158
- [AArch32] Improve Cortex-A53 FP scheduler
- [AArch64] Add rcpc extension
- [AArch64] Do not increase data alignment at -Os and with -fconserve-stack.
- [AArch64] Emit SIMD moves as mov
- [AArch64] Enable software prefetching (-fprefetch-loop-arrays) for
ThunderX 88xxx
- [AArch64] Fix atomic_cmp_exchange_zero_reg_1.c with +lse
- [AArch64] Fix failing lrint inline tests on bare-metal
- [AArch64] Fix ILP32 memory access
- [AArch64] Improve/correct ThunderX 1 cost model for Arith_shift
- [AArch64] Improve dup pattern
- [AArch64] Inline calls to lrint when possible
- [AArch64] Literal vector construction through vcombine is poor
- [Misc] Fold (A / (1 << B)) to (A >> B)
- [Testsuite] [AArch32] Allow arm_arch_*_ok to test several macros
- [Testsuite] [AArch32] Make gcc.target/arm/its.c more robust
- [Testsuite] [AArch32] Require arm_arch_v8a_ok for sdiv_costs_1.c
- [Testsuite] [AArch32] sdiv_costs_1.c: Disable on softfloat
- [Testsuite] [AArch32] sdiv_costs_1.c: Require arm_v8_vfp_ok
- [Testsuite] [AArch32] sdiv_costs_1.c: Use dg-add-options
- [Cleanup] [AArch64] Rearrange the processors in aarch64-cores.def
- [Cleanup] Update comment about is_leaf
- [Doc] [AArch64] Document RcPc extension
o Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.4+svn251111 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/6.4-2017.08/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 6.4+svn251111
o Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to
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[1]. Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only
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[2]. Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the
full Linaro Toolchain validation plan is executed.
* Mon - Wed off [6/10]
# Progress #
* TCWG-1159,New design of GDB/GDBserver target description. [3/10]
Commit another three patches, about GDBserver unit tests. Rebase
patches, and prepare series v4.
* Misc, [1/10]
# Plan #
* TCWG-1162, triage the aarch64-elf GDB test result with QEMU.
* TCWG-1159, rebase my GDB target description patches, and post v4.
--
Yao Qi
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC/Validation
* Completed 6.4 and 7.2 branch merges
* Snapshots delayed due to gerrit config upgrade issues
* Investigating upstream bugzilla PR81863
* Other patches are still pending on upstream reviews
o Misc
* Various meetings and discussions.
== Plan ==
o Complete monthly snapshot and binary releases
o PR81863, ...
== This Week ==
* type promotion (7/10)
- Refactored patch
- Resolved all functional regressions on arm, aarch64, ppc64.
* PR78809 (1/10)
* Misc (2/10)
- pinged patches for malloc propagation and PR78736
- Public holiday
== Next Week ==
- Validation and Benchmarking of type-promotion pass
- PR78809
In a recent github thread
<https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os/issues/1708#issuecomment-320245973> it
was suggested that I ask this list about what the exact reasons for the
lack of C++ support are, and how/if they break down by C++ feature so as to
gauge a possible investment in remedying this situation at least partially.
In other words, suppose I changed the build process to include libstdc++,
libgcc, and libgcc_eh (and/or other runtime support commonly linked with
C++ programs), what features of C++ would work/still fail? And what
implementation work would be required to implement the missing features?
On a related note, are there intrinsic properties of the secure environment
that may conflict with running C++ code, if any?
Thank you.
- Godmar
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC/Validation
* Delivered GCC 6 and 7 2017.08 release candidates binaries
* Preparing backports for 2017.08 source snapshots
* reviewed infra patches
o Misc
* Various meetings and discussions.
== Plan ==
o Complete backports and branch merges for snapshots
o Tuesday off
