The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2017.04 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source packages.

Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.3+svn246668 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2017.05 stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.04/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.3+svn246668 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/71436: Restrict *load_multiple pattern till after LRA * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/79911: Invalid vec_select arguments * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/79889: Error message on target attribute on aarch64 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/79913: VEC_SELECT bugs in aarch64 patterns * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/79925: tweaks to quoting in error messages * Backport of [AArch32] Fix small multiply feature * Backport of [AArch64] Enable AES fusion with -mcpu=generic * Backport of [AArch64] Fix bootstrap due to wide_int .elt (0) uninit warning * Backport of [AArch64] Fix incorrect INS in SIMD mov pattern * Backport of [AArch64] Fix search_line_fast for aarch64/ILP32 * Backport of [AArch64] Fix typo in aarch64.opt (dummping -> dumping) * Backport of [AArch64] Improve cost model for ThunderX2 CN99xx * Backport of [AArch64] Improve generic branch cost * Backport of [AArch64] more poly64 intrinsics and tests * Backport of [AArch64] Use 'x' constraint for vector HFmode multiplication by indexed element instructions

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.4+svn246667 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the next maintenance release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2017.04/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.4+svn246667

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[1] Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only put through unit-testing and full validation is not performed. [2] Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the full Linaro Toolchain validation plan is executed.