The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) announces the 2014.07-1 release of the Linaro GCC 4.9 source package. This is a respin of the 2014.07 release which contained a backport of a revision that is only relevant to trunk.
Changes in this GCC source package release are:
* Updates to GCC 4.9.1 (svn212635) * Revert backport of [AArch32] Fix PR target/61154.
Please find the original 2014.07 release notes below:
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2014.07 stable release of the Linaro GCC 4.9 source package.
Linaro GCC 4.9 2014.07 is the fourth Linaro GCC source package release in the 4.9 series. It is based on FSF GCC 4.9.1+svn212419 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes.
With the imminent release of ARMv8 hardware and the recent release of the GCC 4.9 compiler the Linaro TCWG will be focusing on stabilization and performance of the compiler as the FSF GCC compiler approaches version 4.9.1. The Linaro TCWG will provide monthly stable[1] source package releases until FSF GCC 4.9.1 is released. At that point Linaro GCC 4.9 will merge in FSF GCC 4.9.1 and, release Linaro GCC 4.9.1, and then return to a schedule of stable quarterly releases and monthly engineering[2] releases.
Interesting changes in this GCC source package release include:
* Updates to GCC 4.9.1-pre+svn212419 * Backport of [AArch32] Wrap long literals in HOST_WIDE_INT_C in aarch-common.c * Backport of [AArch32] Rewrite TLC Intrinsics. * Backport of [AArch32] Remove vzip, vuzp, vtrn builtins and cleanup * Backport of [AArch32] Use enum name instead of integer value for PARAM_SCHED_PRESSURE_ALGORITHM. * Backport of [AArch32] Vectorise bswap* * Backport of [AArch32] Fix PR/61331 * Backport of [AArch32] Fix PR target/61154 * Backport of [AArch32] Use mov_imm type for movw operations consistently * Backport of [AArch32] Remove XFmode from ARM backend. * Backport of [AArch64] Rewrite REV Intrinsics. * Backport of [AArch64] Implement HARD_REGNO_CALLER_SAVE_MODE. * Backport of [AArch64] Support tail indirect function call. * Backport of [AArch64] Fix stack protector for ILP32 * Backport of [AArch64] ILP32 dynamic linker * Backport of [AArch64] Correct signedness of builtins, remove casts from arm_neon.h * Backport of [AArch64] clarify stack layout diagram * Backport of [AArch64] Implement movmem for the benefit of inline memcpy * Backport of [AArch64] Fix REG_CFA_RESTORE mode. * Backport of [AArch64] Fix layout of frame layout code. * Backport of [AArch64] Fix some reg-to-reg move scheduler types. * Backport of [AArch64] Implement CRC32 ACLE intrinsics + testsuite. * Backport of [AArch64] Implement ADD in vector registers for 32-bit scalar values. * Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV AArch64 * Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Use signed chars in gcc.dg/pr60114.c. * Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Rewrite UZP Intrinsics. * Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Rewrite TRN Intrinsics. * Backport of [AArch32/AArch64] Rewrite EXT Intrinsics. * Backport of [genattrtab] Fix memory corruption, allocate enough memory for all bypassed reservations * Backport of Fix PR c/60114
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