The Linaro Binary Toolchain
============================
The Linaro GCC 4.9-2016.02 Release is now available.
Notice: All Linaro GCC 4.9 series toolchain users should migrate to
the latest version of the Linaro GCC 4.9 toolchain in order to
mitigate potential security exposure to CVE-2015-7545. See the NEWS
section below for details.
Download release packages from:
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.9-2016.02/http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2016.02/
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/
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 4.9-2016.02
FSF eglibc 2.19 (eglibc.git/linaro_eglibc-2_19)
Linaro newlib 2.1.0-2014.09 (linaro_newlib-branch)
Linaro binutils 2.24 (linaro_binutils-2_24-branch)
FSF GDB 7.10 (gdb-7.10-branch)
Linaro Linux Version 3.17-2014.10 (linux-linaro-3.17-2014.10)
Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:
http://git.linaro.org/?a=project_list&s=toolchain%2F&btnS=Search
NEWS for Linaro GCC 4.9-2016.02
================================
* The armv8l-linux-gnueabihf targetted toolchain is now built using
--with-mode=thumb (like all of the other cross toolchains) rather than
the default which is ARM mode.
* Applied fix for CVE-2015-7545 - A stack-based buffer overflow in
glibc's getaddrinfo() was corrected in glibc 2.23 and backported into
Linaro eglibc 2.19 (linaro_eglibc-2_19).
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00416.html
* See the following Linaro GCC snapshot:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.9-2015.10/
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
--
Ryan S. Arnold | Linaro Toolchain Engineering Manager
ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org | ryanarn on #linaro-tcwg @ freenode.irc.net
The Linaro Binary Toolchain
============================
The Linaro GCC 4.9-2016.02-rc1 Release-Candidate is now available.
Notice: All Linaro GCC 4.9 series toolchain users should migrate to
the latest version of the Linaro GCC 4.9 toolchain in order to
mitigate potential security exposure to CVE-2015-7545. See the NEWS
section below for details.
Download release-candidate packages from:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.9-2016.02-rc1/http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2016.02-rc1/
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/
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 4.9-2016.02-rc1
FSF eglibc 2.19 (eglibc.git/linaro_eglibc-2_19)
Linaro newlib 2.1.0-2014.09 (linaro_newlib-branch)
Linaro binutils 2.24 (linaro_binutils-2_24-branch)
FSF GDB 7.10 (gdb-7.10-branch)
Linaro Linux Version 3.17-2014.10 (linux-linaro-3.17-2014.10)
Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:
http://git.linaro.org/?a=project_list&s=toolchain%2F&btnS=Search
NEWS for Linaro GCC 4.9-2016.02-rc1
====================================
* Applied fix for CVE-2015-7545 - A stack-based buffer overflow in
glibc's getaddrinfo() was corrected in glibc 2.23 and backported into
Linaro eglibc 2.19 (linaro_eglibc-2_19).
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00416.html
* See the following Linaro GCC snapshot:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.9-2015.10/
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
--
Ryan S. Arnold | Linaro Toolchain Engineering Manager
ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org | ryanarn on #linaro-tcwg @ freenode.irc.net
== Progress ==
* Validation
- extended validation: updated ABE patch after review
- investigating how to actually separate stdout/stderr streams in dejagnu
- still seeing random results (mostly in the sanitizers tests) in
the Cambridge lab
* GCC
- no progress on Win32-hosted toolchain bug: cannot reproduce it
from a manually built toolchain
- advSIMD/Neon intrinsics tests: cleanup on-going
- bug 2125: forwarded upstream, quickly fixed by R.Biener, backport
in progress
- Misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ...)
== Next ==
* Validation:
- more on extended validation
- random tests investigation
- more on stdout/stderr
* GCC:
- trunk monitoring, report regressions if needed
- intrinsics tests cleanup
o Easter Monday off (2/10)
== Progress ==
o Extended validation (5/10)
* Worked on benchmarking integration
* Analyzed failures due to --tarbin and --check ABE's flags
* Analyzed native AArch32 timeout (due to guality/GDB testcase)
o Misc (3/10)
* Various meetings
== Plan ==
o Continue on extended validation
o Finalize DejaGNU patches, GCC ARMv8.1 builtins fix.
== Progress ==
* Type promotion pass (6/10)
- Fixed major false positive uninit warnings
= Changed tree-ssa-uinit to handle SEXT_EXPR
= preserving TREE_NO_WARNING set by SRA
= Somemore fixes to preserve debug loc
- There are still some more but this is mainly due to how
tree-ssa-uinit is designed
- Working through the output patterns; some are simple changes but
some needs more analysis
- Planning to create a branch with the latest version for easy review
* Bugs (1/10)
- PR70359
* Misc (1/10)
- GCC Lists
* Public holiday (2/10)
== Plan ==
* Type promotion pass benchmarking
* Perf with LTO
== This week ==
* Bugzilla 69663 - [ARM] Implement overflow arithmetic standard names (4/10)
- Resolved all thumb2 failures
- Posted new patch upstream
* TCWG-247 - Create Validation Job to run on GCC Trunk Commits (1/10)
- Investigation into Python API for discovering when Jenkins builders
are idle
* Laptop hardware failure debugging (2/10)
- Requested a new laptop from Arm
* Misc meeting (1/10)
* Good Friday holiday (2/10)
== Next week ==
* TCWG-247
- Create prototype implementation
== This Week ==
* LTO (4/10)
- Committed r234490 to fix PR70366
- Spent unnecessary time tracking down known (invalid) bug PR65778
- LTO and branch out of range error:
- patch to introduce max partition size param
- experimenting with partition sizes to find value close to 16 mb limit.
* Validation (2/10)
- Pushed script to it's own repo
- Reviews from Christophe on tcwg-buildapp job
* Public Holidays (4/10)
== Next Week ==
- Continue ongoing tasks
== Progress ==
* Support (2/10)
- Investigating a bit more PR16275, need some bigger changes in Clang/LLVM
* Background (6/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, general support, etc.
- Planning for a bigger team (git, Jenkins, infrastructure, documentation)
- Receiving new team members, planning start up tasks
- Android NDK discussion, investigation
Realising my activity report has been almost useless for the past month or so...
# Progress #
* TCWG-532, done. [1/10]
Canonicalize ARM syscall patch is committed.
* TCWG-167, patch is posted for review. [4/10]
Add ARM epilogue unwinder in GDB, which fixes many gdb.reverse test
fails.
* TCWG-545, V2 are posted. [1/10]
* TCWG-547, [2/10] patches are reviewed, almost OK, but some changes are
needed.
* Talk with Jojo Ma.
* Open tickets to install buildbot-slave on gcc compile farm for GDB
buildbot setup.
# Plan #
* Holiday on Friday and next Monday.
* TCWG-167, TCWG-545, TCWG-547.
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Yao
