The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================

The Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08 Release is now available.

The GCC 6 Release series has significant changes from the GCC 5 release series. For an explanation of the changes please see the following website:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html

For help in porting to GCC 6 please see the following explanation:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html

Download release packages from:

http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08/ http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.1-2016.08/

Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/

Previous releases are at:

http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/

Host Requirements ==================

Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API.

https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869

Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08

http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08/

FSF glibc 2.23 (linaro/2.23)

https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-08/msg00212.html

Linaro newlib 2.4.0-2016.03 (linaro-2.4-branch)

Linaro binutils 2.27 (linaro_binutils-2_27-branch)

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git%3Ba=blob_plain%3Bf=...

FSF GDB 7.11 (binutils-gdb.git~gdb-7.11-branch)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-02/msg00010.html

Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at:

http://git.linaro.org/?a=project_list&s=toolchain%2F&btnS=Search

NEWS for Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08 ================================

* Include GNU Linker fix.

commit fbc6c6763e70cb2376e2de990c7fc54c0ee44a59 Author: Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com Date: Tue Aug 23 09:45:11 2016 +0100 Fix seg-fault in ARM linker when trying to parse a binary file.

* Copy the libwinpthread DLL into the bin directories so it gets into the tmp directory before tar is run.

https://review.linaro.org/#/c/13723/

* Include GNU Assembler fix for PR 20364

commit 5fe7ebe5ab43750abf8f490b785d99a1e598e7fd Author: Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com Date: Fri Aug 5 10:37:57 2016 +0100 Fix the generation of alignment frags in code sections for AArch64.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20364

* Performance related backports from Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, and Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.07 have been included.

See the following Linaro GCC snapshots:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.07/

Contact Linaro ===============

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