The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2016.04 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.

This monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn234898 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/5.3-2016.04/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn234898 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] Fix PR target/70496 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR driver/70132: Avoid double fclose in driver-arm.c * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR rtl-optimization/69904: Disallow copying/duplicating of load-exclusive operations * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/62254 Fix for ARMv3 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69614 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/70566 Check that condition register is dead in tst-imm -> lsls-imm Thumb2 peepholes * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR testsuite/70553 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR rtl-optimization/70398 LRA * Backport of [Bugfix] PR 69400: Invalid 128-bit modulus result * Backport of [Bugfix] PR middle-end/70370 * Backport of [AArch32] 1/2 Cortex-R8 support * Backport of [AArch32] Add initial support for the Cortex-A32 * Backport of [AArch32] Add support for Cortex-A35 * Backport of [AArch32] Delete ASM_OUTPUT_DEF and fall back to default .set directive * Backport of [AArch64] 1/3 Enable CRC by default for armv8.1-a * Backport of [AArch64] 2/3 Rework the code to print extension strings (pr70133) * Backport of [AArch64] 3/3 Fix up for pr70133 * Backport of [AArch64] [ACLE][NEON] Implement vcvt*_s64_f64 and vcvt*_u64_f64 NEON intrinsics * Backport of [AArch64] Add extra tuning parameters for target processors * Backport of [AArch64] Add support for Cortex-A35 * Backport of [AArch64] Only update assembler .arch directive when necessary * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] 2/2 Cortex-R8 support * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] PR target/70113 fix pr63304_1 testcase * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch64] Skip gcc.target/aarch64/assembler_arch_1.c if assembler does not support it * Backport of [Testsuite] Avoid GDB being blocked on signals * Backport of [Testsuite] Fix testsuite for Cortex-R8 support

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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.