A new update for the Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power 10.0 is released.
Advance Toolchain for Linux on Power 10.0-3 new features
- Note: -mcpu=power9 is not working correctly due to incorrect code generation for __divkf3. Use -fno-peephole2 to avoid the bug.
- GCC provides:
- The GNU C Library provides:
- Binutils provides:
- Fix for looping in ppc64_elf_size_stubs.
- TOC optimisation for POWER9.
- Fix ld segfault on script discarding dynamic sections.
- Gold improvements.
- GDB provides:
- 128-bit IEEE floating-point types support.
- POWER ISA 3.0/Power9 instructions record/replay support.
- POWER8/ISA 2.07 atomic sequences (lbarx/stbcx, lharx/sthcx and lqarx/stqcx) single-stepping support.
- Oprofile provides support for the POWER 8 NV and NVL variants.
- Python provides:
- CVE-2016-2183: Remove 3DES from cipher list.
- CVE-2016-1000110: HTTPoxy flag vulnerability to attacks.
- Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib (CVE-2016-0772).
- OpenSSL provides fixes for CVE-2016-8610, CVE-2017-3731 and CVE-2017-3732.
The complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available at the official IBM website for the Advance Toolchain.
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