The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2014.02
engineering release of Linaro GCC 4.8.
As announced at Linaro Connect USA 2013 Linaro GCC is moving to a
pattern of quarterly stable releases, with engineering releases in the
intervening months. This is the first engineering release. The next stable
release will be the 2014.04 release.
Linaro GCC 4.8 2014.02 is the eleventh release in the 4.8 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn207411 release, it includes performance
improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.8.3+svn207411
* ARM-v8 crypto intrinsics support
* New vectorizer cost model
The source tarball is available from:
http://releases.linaro.org/14.02/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.8
Downloads are available from the Linaro Releases website:
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/
More information on the features and issues are available from the
release page:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2014.02
Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/
Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/
Interested in commercial support? Inquire at support(a)linaro.org
This should match what we have in meta-linaro/dora, which is the linaro
2013.12 toolchain release.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Koen Kooi <koen(a)dominion.thruhere.net>
Date: 17 January 2014 19:35
Subject: Fwd: seemingly bug in Linaro gcc 4.8
To: Koen Kooi <koen.kooi(a)linaro.org>
Begin doorgestuurd bericht:
> Van: Khem Raj <raj.khem(a)gmail.com>
> Onderwerp: seemingly bug in Linaro gcc 4.8
> Datum: 17 januari 2014 17:56:23 CET
> Aan: Koen Kooi <koen(a)dominion.thruhere.net>
>
> Hey Koen
>
> I am seeing a problem with linaro gcc-48 basically angstrom/2013.12
release
> The issue is attached sample C file. When compiled and run on my ArchLinux
> box which is running upstream gcc 4.8.2 it works ok
>
> but on beagleboard it fails.
>
>
> to compile
>
> $CXX -pthread -std=gnu++11 a.cpp
>
> on ARCH
>
> kraj@leo ~ > g++ b.cpp -std=gnu++11 -pthread
> kraj@leo ~ > ./a.out
> 140309495478016 i: 1
> 140309503870720 i: 2
>
> on Beagleboard
>
> root@beagleboard:~# ./std-thread
> pure virtual method called
> terminate called without an active exception
> Aborted
>
> Can you pass this to right folks in Linaro and get some help in resolving
it
>
> I havent yet trried it with OE-Core gcc which is also gcc 4.8
>
> The issue is most probably ARM related as it seems to me.
>
> Thanks for help
>
> -Khem
>
Hello,
I'm maintaining an older release we have which uses the older toolchian
binaries in gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabi-2012.03-20120326_linux. I've
identified a bug in glibc we appear to be encountering and would like to
port the fix back.
I initially went the route of compiling the above toolchain binaries from
source as described in the readme.txt but then found that the cross
compiler binary build does not include the e/glibc build and these appear
to be sucked in in binary form (oneiric-sysroot-r1).
Are there any documents how these prebuilt libc binaries were created?
Please note that I'm not asking in general how to build glibc. I've built a
version with and without this bug patched to verify that it is indeed what
we are hitting. I'm more hoping to get an idea of how the specific binaries
mentioned above were built.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Evan Carson
== This week ==
- Backported 206261 and 201263 - AArch64 support NEG in vector registers
- Backported 202020 - Support SISD shifts
- Backported 202259 - AARCH64, fix return types for vaddvq_s64, vaaddvq_u64
- Travel back to US on Friday, February 7th
== Next week ==
- Submit backport for review once crypto instruction review is complete
and approved
- Continue backports from trunk
- New backports
== Future ==
--
Michael Collison
Linaro Toolchain Working Group
michael.collison(a)linaro.org
Hello,
The binutils 2.24-2013.12 release page says that the release was built
from the linaro_binutils-2_24-2013_12_release tag, but that tag
doesn't seem to actually be present in the git repo at
http://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils.git . Could that tag please
be pushed?
Thanks and regards,
Gregory
== Progress ==
* Cbuildv2 now builds a static gdbserver for cross linux targets. (1/10)
* Fixed Cbuildv2 bugs and added feature requests from Venkat, who
is bravely being our beta site. (1/10)
* Got .sum files produced from Jenkins builds copied to
tcwgweb. Much of this was getting everything setup to allow files
to be copied securely. (TCWG-386 - 3/10)
* QEMU image prep for softfp and Rasberry PI testing. (TCWG-380 - 2/10)
* Meetings and misc. (3/10)
- Tweaks to Jenkins support so build names the remote directory
in a way tcwgweb expects.
- Added more info to TCWG Build Farm wiki page.
(https://wiki.linaro.org/TCWG%20build%20farm)
== Plan ==
* Figure out how to make tcwgweb run test comparisons.
* Now that SSH is setup correctly in the TCWG build farm, GCC
testing tries to execute the remote tests, but hits an error in
DejaGnu, which needs to be debugged and fixed. (TCWG 324)
* Add Win32 installer for Canadian cross built binary
releases to Cbuildv2. (TCWG-381)
== Issues ==
* none
== Progress ==
* LRA on AArch32:
o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (0/10)
- No progress this week.
o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (3/10)
- Continue analysis on Cortex-a15.
* LRA on AArch64: (2/10)
o Start to look at PR 59222 (ICE with ILP32).
* Branch merge and backports reviews. (2/10)
* Continued Linaro 4.8 release performance on Cortex-a15. (2/10)
* Various meetings. (1/10)
* Misc:
o start to prepare AArch64 toolchain status for Connect session.
== Next ==
* Continue the on-going tasks
* 4.8 2014.02 Engineering release
== Progress ==
* Libsanitzer for AArch64: (3/10)
- QEMU patch to handle missing mmap flag accepted.
- Charles was able to build GCC + run the sanitizer tests on board
- cleanup patch, ready to be sent to the LLVM list for approval
* Cross-validation: (1/10)
- extending timeout to 5h for aarch64-linux seems to be sufficient
when using qemu-aarch64
* 2014.02 release preparation: (4/10)
- branch merge
- backported new vectorizer cost model (cheap, dynamic, unlimited),
and ran some benchmarks.
- asked Kugan to check the few improvements observed when using
-fvect-cost-model=unlimited
- reviewed Crypto intrinsics backport from Michael Collison.
Discussed the use of gerrit+jenkins with him and Rob.
- Charles ran the validation of the Crypto intrinsics backport on
AArch64 hardware
- I cross-validated it using binutils-linaro-2.24-2013.12, to make
sure we release components capable enough to interoperate.
- upgrading binutils in cbuildv1/tcwg-web would help, until we can
switch to jenkins+cbuildv2+gerrit
* Misc (2/10): conf-calls, meetings
== Next ==
* libsanitizer on AArch64: post patch to LLVM list
* crypto intrinsics: commit patch for 2014.02 release
== Progress ==
* Short week: Public holiday on Wednesday 5th Feburary 2014. [2/10]
* Ran gdb testsuites for arm and x86 (native + remote) with all in
progress patches applied. [1/10]
* Investigated and triaged arm only failures. [2/10]
* Investigated gdb.dwarf2/implptr-64bit.exp failure and submitted
patch to disable it for 32-bit targets.[2/10]
* Installation and configuration of new desktop machine. [1/10]
* Investigation of stack unwinding failures on arm. [1/10]
* Investigation of work required to implement record and replay on
aarch64. [1/10]
== Plan ==
* Setup gdb for aarch64 and try to run a demo application.
* Investigate remaining arm only failures in gdb for arm and work
towards closeout of CARD-321.
* Travel to Islamabad to receive passport back from Chinese embassy
for Macau visa.
