A new major version of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is released.
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0-0 new features
- Support for Ubuntu 16.04.
- GCC provides fixes for complex IEEE 128-bit floating point and support for IEEE 128-bit floating point built-ins.
- GCC creates binaries using –mcpu=power8 –mtune=power8 by default on ppc64le.
- Valgrind provides a fix for missing support for wbit field on mtfsfi instruction.
- Valgrind Itrace provides a new option to only start instruction tracing when a given function starts.
- Cross-compiler packages are now signed.
- OpenSSL provides fixes for 6 security advisories.
Complete list and details of bug/performance fixes is available at the official IBM website for the Advance Toolchain.
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