The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2016.06 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source packages.

Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.1+svn237469 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08 stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.06/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.1+svn237469 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69857 Remove bogus early return false; in gen_operands_ldrd_strd * Backport of [AArch32] Add mode to probe_stack set operands * Backport of [AArch32] arm/ieee754-df.S: Fix typos in comments * Backport of [AArch32] Do not set ARM_ARCH_ISA_THUMB for armv5 * Backport of [AArch32] Error out for incompatible ARM multilibs * Backport of [AArch32] Fix costing of sign-extending load in rtx costs * Backport of [AArch32] Tie operand 1 to operand 0 in AESMC pattern when fusing AES/AESMC * Backport of [AArch32] Use proper output modifier for DImode register in store exclusive patterns * Backport of [AArch64] 1/4 Add the missing support of vfms_n_f32, vfmsq_n_f32, vfmsq_n_f64 * Backport of [AArch64] 2/4 Extend vector mutiply by element to all supported modes * Backport of [AArch64] 3/4 Reimplement multiply by element to get rid of inline assembly * Backport of [AArch64] 4/4 Reimplement vmvn* intrinscis, remove inline assembly * Backport of [AArch64] Adjust SIMD integer preference * Backport of [AArch64] Delete ASM_OUTPUT_DEF and fallback to default .set directive * Backport of [AArch64] Don't define a macro when a variable will do * Backport of [AArch64] Fix shift attributes * Backport of [AArch64] Improve aarch64_case_values_threshold setting * Backport of [AArch64] print_operand should not fallthrough from register operand into generic operand * Backport of [AArch64] Remove aarch64_simd_attr_length_move * Backport of [AArch64] Set TARGET_OMIT_STRUCT_RETURN_REG to true * Backport of [AArch64] Simplify ashl<mode>3 expander for SHORT modes * Backport of [AArch64] Simplify reduc_plus_scal_v2[sd]f sequence * Backport of [AArch64] Tie operand 1 to operand 0 in AESMC pattern when AES/AESMC fusion is enabled * Backport of [AArch64] Update documentation of AArch64 options for GCC6 * Backport of [AArch64] Wrap SHIFT_COUNT_TRUNCATED in brackets * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 01/11 Fix typo in vreinterpret.c test comment * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 02/11 Remove useless #ifdefs from these tests: vmul, vshl and vtst * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 03/11 AdvSIMD tests: be more verbose * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 04/11 Add forgotten vsliq_n_u64 vsliq_n_s64 tests * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 05/11 Add missing vreinterpretq_p{8,16} tests * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 06/11 Add missing vtst_p16 and vtstq_p16, and vtst_p{8,16} and vtstq_p{8,16} tests * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 07/11 Add vget_lane fp16 tests * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 08/11 Add missing vstX_lane fp16 tests * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 09/11 Add missing vrnd{,a,m,n,p,x} tests * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 10/11 Add missing tests for intrinsics operating on poly64 and poly128 types * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 11/11 Add missing tests for vreinterpret, operating of fp16 type * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Fix vmul_elem_1.c on big-endian * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Guard float64_t with __aarch64__ * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Skip cpu-diagnostics tests when overriding -mcpu * Backport of [Testsuite] gcc-dg: handle all return values when shouldfail is set * Backport of [Testsuite] PR70227, skip g++.dg/lto/pr69589_0.C on targets without -rdynamic support * Backport of [Testsuite] PR tree-optimization/57206 * Backport of [Testsuite] Skip tail call tests on Thumb-1 targets * Backport of [Misc] Increase default value of lto-min-partition to 10000 * Backport of [Misc] introduce --param max-lto-partition for having an upper bound on partition size * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] Fix typos in *thumb1_mulsi3 comment * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] Remove unused TARGET_ARM_V*M macros * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Delete obsolete CC_ZESWP and CC_SESWP CC modes * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Remove an unused reload hook * Backport of [Cleanup] Convert conditional compilation on WORD_REGISTER_OPERATIONS * Backport of [Cleanup] Remove spurious debug code * Backport of [Cleanup] Move wrong ChangeLog entry from toplevel to gcc ChangeLog * Backport of [Doc] Fix minor doc bugs, signalling typo, major version changes rare

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.4+svn237113 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08 maintenance release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2016.06/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

Updates to GCC 5.6+svn237113 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] [Linaro #2185] PR target/69245: Set TREE_TARGET_GLOBALS in aarch64_set_current_function when new tree is the default node to recalculate optab availability * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] [Linaro #2185] PR target/70002: Make aarch64_set_current_function play nice with pragma resetting

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