The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the latest release of Linaro GCC 4.5.
Linaro GCC 4.5 is the fourth release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.1+svn164911, it includes many ARM-focused performance improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include: * Various NEON related fixes * Performance improvements * A clean up of some of the testsuite test cases * An updated version of the __sync multicore primitives * Improvements in data packing when optimising for size * C locale support in libstdc++-v3
This release adds the new option -fstrict-volatile-bitfields and enables it by default on ARM. See doc/invoke.texi for more information.
The source tarball is available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2010.11-0
Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro
Note that there were no changes to the 4.4 series.
-- Michael