A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0 is released.
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-4 new features
- GCC provides:
- The GNU C Library provides:
- Fix for malloc list_lock/arena lock deadlock.
- Fix for CVE-2016-1234: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC.
- Fix for CVE-2016-3706: Stack overflow in hostent conversion.
- Fix for CVE-2016-4429: Stack overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call.
- POWER8 optimized version of expf() and sinf().
- Fix missing hwcap strings.
- Valgrind provides a fix for missing support for W bit field on mtfsfi instruction.
- Boost provides 128 bytes of cache line for lockfree data structures.
- OpenSSL provides fix for CVE-2016-6309, CVE-2016-7052 and more 6 security advisories.
- Golang provides:
- Fix for EpollEvent struct incorrect for ppc64/ppc64le.
- Improved sqrt, xorBytes, Equal and memmove performance for ppc64/ppc64le.
The complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available at the official IBM website for the Advance Toolchain.
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