Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0-7 released

A bug fix update of the IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0 is released.

Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0-7: bug fixes

• Bug fixes for DFP in GCC.
• Fix to address over counting user context lost samples in OProfile.
• GDB now displays correctly the ‘vperm’ instruction.
• Time zone for the Advance Toolchain is now automatically set to the system’s time zone.
• New advance-toolchain-at5.0-selinux rpm, which sets the correct labels for key files, so that the Advance Toolchain works when SELinux is enabled.

Complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available in the Release Notes file in the repositories below. If you are running Linux on a Power system, I strongly recommend you to try this toolchain.

Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0-7 download links

The Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 5.0-7 is available for SLES10, SLES11, RHEL5 and RHEL6. Download RPMs and sources here:

• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/redhat/RHEL6/at5.0/
• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/redhat/RHEL5/at5.0/
• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/suse/SLES_11/at5.0/
• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/suse/SLES_10/at5.0/

Compatibility RPMs are also available for RHEL4 and SLES9:

• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/redhat/RHEL4/at5.0/
• ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/suse/SLES_9/at5.0/

For more information about the Advance Toolchain, please visit:

• The Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux documentation
• The PowerLinux Community

by Carlos Eduardo Seo

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