The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of both Linaro GCC 4.4 and Linaro GCC 4.5.

Linaro GCC 4.5 is the seventh release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.2, it includes many ARM-focused performance improvements and bug fixes.

Interesting changes include: * Improved code generation in the __sync primitives * Better modelling of the Cortex-A9 NEON pipeline * Added a performance improvement that converts a tree of ifs into a switchs * Many bug fixes

Linaro GCC 4.4 is the seventh release in the 4.4 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.4.5, it is a maintenance release that fixes one fault found with offsets on NEON loads.

The source tarballs are available from: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.02-0 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.4-2011.02-0

Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro

-- Michael