The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2016.05 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source packages.

Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.1+svn236106 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08 stable[2] quarterly release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.05/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 6.1+svn236106

Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn236108 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08 maintenance release.

This snapshot tarball is available on: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.05/

Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:

* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn236108 * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/70711 Fix big-endian ARMv8.1-A builds * Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/70044 -flto turns on -fomit-frame-pointer * Backport of [AArch32] Reduce size of arm1020e automaton * Backport of [AArch64] Fix SIMD predicate * Backport of [AArch64] Fix thinko in handling of -momit-leaf-frame-pointer option * Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Tests for arm_restrict_it patterns in thumb2.md * Backport of [Testsuite] gcc-dg: handle all return values when shouldfail is set

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

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