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IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 4.0-0 Released

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A new version of the IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux was released last week. In addition to the features presented in 3.0-1, this release features:

  • Updated versions of all packages (see release notes for details).

  • Ships with libhugetlbfs-2.9. 

  • large TOC support with -mcmodel=medium and -mcmodel=medium -fPIEoptimizations.

  • XL MASS library enablement for vectorizing math functions.

  • Graphite loop optimizations.

  • Link-Time optimizations.

  • Several other GCC and GLIBC optimizations for POWER7.

And it is available for SLES10, SLES11, RHEL5 and RHEL6. Download RPMs and sources here:

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