Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 10.0-0 released
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
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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
In the ‘p’ struct type defined in the Golang runtime code, there is some padding at the end to avoid false sharing between different ‘p’-type structs. That padding should be
For consistency across platforms, Golang for Power now fetches the current time in nanoseconds, via the clock_gettime() syscall. Committed as 0df5ab7. This patch fixes issue #11222 for ppc64x. There is still
Golang 1.7 was released today. This release includes some significant changes, including: Port for Linux on IBM z Systems (s390) Compiler improvements, most notably, the SSA backend for x86_64 Context
The GNU C Library (glibc) 2.24 is now available for download. This release fixes several bugs, including security issues CVE-2016-1234, CVE-2016-3075, CVE-2016-3706, CVE-2016-4429 and CVE-2016-5417. For a complete list of features and fixes,
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.1 is available, featuring several fixes for bugs and security issues in glibc and OpenSSL. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.1-5 new features
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0 is available, featuring several fixes for bugs and security issues in gcc, glibc and OpenSSL. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-7 new
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-3 new features GCC provides: Fix for PowerPC ISA 2.07 is inefficient at doint (float)(int)x.
Commit 1b045ee added a vectorized implementation of the main loop in strlen, improving the performance for long strings by approximately 200% on POWER8-based systems. Unfortunately, I had to use a few POWER8-only
Commit 911569d fixed a problem when displaying the hardware capabilities (AT_HWCAP) when LD_SHOW_AUXV=1 on Power architecture. The code that loops through the HWCAP bits should had been updated when all the
The GNU C Library (glibc) 2.23 is now available for download. This release fixes several bugs, including security issues CVE-2015-7547, CVE-2014-9761, CVE-2015-8776, CVE-2015-8777, CVE-2015-8778 and CVE-2015-8779. For a complete list of features and fixes,
Yesterday, a patch was posted to libc-alpha and committed to our master tree (as e9db92d) to fix a serious vulnerability in glibc. It was discovered that bug 18665 could lead to