A new major version of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is released.
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-0 new features
- 32-bit Go libraries are no longer supported.
- Lock elision support was removed due some performance issues.
- New tools available on the cross-compiler: boost, inteltbb, libauxv, libdfp, libhugetlbfs, libsphde, liburcu, libvecpf, openssl, paflib, tcmalloc and zlib
- MPC provides:
- Fix for mpc_pow output at low precision (see discussion).
- Debuginfo packages provided separately.
- Binutils provides:
- Gold linker.
- Split stack support included.
Complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available at the official IBM website for the Advance Toolchain.
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