The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2016.03 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.

This monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn234210 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.05 stable [1] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.03/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn234210 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] [Linaro #1994] Disable pcrelative_literal_loads with fix-cortex-a53-843419 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] [Linaro #2123] Fix dependency of gcc-plugin.h * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/62554 target/69610 Fix for ARMv3 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69161: Don't ignore mode when matching comparison operator in cstore-like patterns * Backport of [AArch32] Enable instruction fusion of AES instructions on ARM for Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 * Backport of [AArch64] Add missing return in aarch64_internal_mov_immediate * Backport of [AArch64] Enable instruction fusion of dependent AESE; AESMC and AESD; AESIMC pairs * Backport of [AArch64] Fix installed plugin headers for aarch64, m68k and c6x * Backport of [AArch64] GCC 6 regression in vector performance. - Fix vector initialization to happen with lane load instructions * Backport of [AArch64] Restrict 16-bit sqrdml{sa}h instructions to FP_LO_REGS * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] add check for aarch64 in check_effective_target_section_anchors * Backport of [Testsuite] Print markers to stderr to avoid races with sanitizer output * Backport of [Misc] Fix ChangeLog for 233518

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[1]. Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the full Linaro Toolchain validation plan is executed.

[2]. Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only put through unit-testing and full validation is not performed.