The Linaro Binary Toolchain
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The Linaro GCC 5.4-2017.01-rc2 Release-Candidate is now available.
Notice: All Linaro GCC 5 series toolchain users should migrate to the
latest version of the Linaro GCC 5 toolchain in order to mitigate
potential security exposure to CVE-2015-7547. See the NEWS section
below for details.
Download release-candidate packages from:
Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at:
Previous releases are at:
Host Requirements
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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.
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.
Package Versions
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Linaro GCC 5.4-2017.01-rc2
Linaro glibc 2.21 (linaro/2.21)
Linaro newlib 2.1.0-2014.09 (linaro_newlib-branch)
Linaro binutils 2.25 (linaro_binutils-2_25-branch)
FSF GDB 7.12 (gdb-7.12-branch)
Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:
NEWS for Linaro GCC 5.4-2017.01-rc2
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* Include GCC fix for upstream bugzilla PR target/78253:
[5/6/7 Regression] [ARM] call weak function instead of strong when
called through pointer
* Include GCC fix for Linaro bugzilla #1925:
[regression] FAIL: libgomp.fortran/retval1.f90 -O1 execution test
* Include GCC fix for Linaro bugzilla #2185:
aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ internal compiler error: in curr_insn_transform
* Copy the libwinpthread DLL into the bin directories so it gets into
the tmp directory before tar is run.
* Increment binutils release date to 2016_02 to reflect the most recent
commit:
commit ef90a4718f535cbe6345b4e7168baea7b1972abf
Date: Tue Jan 12 16:35:30 2016 +0000
[ARM] Support ARMv8.2 RAS extension.
* Baremetal sysroot names now contain 'newlib' rather than 'glibc'.
* Manifests now contain relative paths rather than absolute paths.
* Now generating proper manifest files.
* Fixed pi requeue support in glibc 2.21 while allowing the existing
2.21 minimum kernel default setting. This was checked into the
linaro/2.21/master branch.
commit a68cafa11c500d8a49a3014c43c5152859d037ae
Date: Tue May 17 10:16:39 2016 -0300
Add runtime check for __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI (BZ# 18463)
commit 6e5cb616b5b442ce8b2664ad673c0acf42a490ac
Date: Mon May 16 19:01:10 2016 -0300
Remove __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST
commit 9ac61c0047295696cbcdbc26bdc174c7bd25a3c8
Date: Mon May 16 10:35:25 2016 -0300
Remove __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI
* Backported support into GCC for Cortex-A32, Cortex-A35, and Cortex-R8.
* Applied fix for CVE-2015-7547 - A stack-based buffer overflow in
glibc's getaddrinfo() was corrected in glibc 2.23 and backported into
glibc 2.21.
* ARMv8.1 Instruction Support - ARMv8.1 instructions support was checked
into GCC and binutils. It has been backported into Linaro GCC 5.3
and Linaro binutils 2.25.
* Backported -Bsymbolic-functions into Linaro binutils 2.25.
* Performance related backports from Linaro GCC 5.2-2015.11, Linaro GCC
5.2-2015.12, and Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.01-1, Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.02,
Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.03, Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.04, Linaro GCC
5.4-2016.06, Linaro GCC 5.4-2016.10 and Linaro GCC 5.4-2016.12 have
been included.
See the following Linaro GCC snapshots:
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