The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2016.12 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source packages.

Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.2+svn243594 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2017.02 stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.12/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.2+svn243594 * Linaro BZ #2575: backport from trunk r239561, r242555. * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/78041 * Backport of [Bugfix] Fix test names for trad.exp tests PR testsuite/78136 * Backport of [Bugfix] PR middle-end/78201 * Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/71636 * Backport of [AArch32] Implementing vmaxnmQ_ST and vminnmQ_ST intrinsincs * Backport of [AArch64] aarch64-*-freebsd* support for gcc * Backport of [AArch64] Add a SHA1H pattern * Backport of [AArch64] Align FP callee-saves * Backport of [AArch64] Improve stack adjustment * Backport of [AArch64] Improve stack adjustment: add testcase * Backport of [Cleanup] Fix typo in name * Backport of [Cleanup] Remove all uses of TARGET_FLT_EVAL_METHOD_NON_DEFAULT and poison it * Backport of [Cleanup] Remove redundant TARGET_VFP * Backport of [Misc] Optimize strchr to strlen (1/2) * Backport of [Misc] Optimize strchr to strlen (2/2) * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix failing vminnm/vmaxnm test on ARM * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] FP16 ARM Alternative format variants of AAPCS tests * Backport of [Testsuite] Fix traditional cpp test failure * Backport of [Testsuite] Report DejaGnu ERROR messages in compare_tests * Backport of [Testsuite] Report DejaGnu ERROR messages in dg-extract-results * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] Remove redundant model field from FPU descriptions * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch32] Use VAR_P * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] aarch64-c.o should depend on TARGET_H * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Add a comment before each set of cores * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Add function comments to some prologue/epilogue helpers * Backport of [Cleanup] [AArch64] Cleanup add expander

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.4+svn243604 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/5.4-2016.12/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.4+svn243604 * Linaro BZ #2575: backport from trunk r232812.

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