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IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0-2 released

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A bug fix update of the IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0 is released. In addition to the features presented in 5.0-1, the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0-2 features:

  • New optimizations for Power Architecture in glibc: strcasecmp, strncasecmp, nearbyint, nearbyintf, plus arithmetic functions and libm wrappers.
  • Performance fixes for regressions in SPEC CPU benchmarks sphinx3 and 168.wupwise
  • Several bug fixes for glibc and libdfp.

Complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available in the Release Notes file in the repositories below.

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

Compatibility RPMs are also available for RHEL4 and SLES9:

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