A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0 is released.
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0-1 new features
- POWER9 tuned libraries.
- The GNU C Library provides:
- POWER9 implies fixed.
- Fixes powerpc ifunc-sel.h with GCC 6 and ifunc-sel.h asm constraints and clobber list.
- Fix for argp.h overwriting GCC keywords with macros.
- Fix for objects in libc.a being overwritten in other static libraries.
- Binutils provides:
- POWER9 support matching final ISA 3.0.
- Fix for PowerPC64 ELFv1 undefined weak functions.
- Fix PowerPC64 ifunc confusion.
- Fix for powerpc apuinfo for spe parsed incorrectly.
- New gold option: -z stack-size.
- Boost provides 128 bytes of cache line for lockfree data structures.
- OpenSSL provides fixes for CVE-2016-6309 and CVE-2016-7052.
- Python fixes CVE-2016-5636: heap overflow in zipimporter module.
The complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available at the official IBM website for the Advance Toolchain.
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