Spain photos available on Getty Images
As you may have noticed, I did not post anything in May. I was on vacation in Spain and took the opportunity to make some photos in Madrid, Toledo, Ávila
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As you may have noticed, I did not post anything in May. I was on vacation in Spain and took the opportunity to make some photos in Madrid, Toledo, Ávila
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 release of PAFLib is available. PAFLib 0.3.0 fixes several bugs and adds support to the Program Priority Register (PPR). A complete list of changes, source code and binaries
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
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-6 new features Binutils provides: Fix for crash on fuzzed samples. Fix powerpc gas abort
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
This year, I decided to consolidate all my playlists in one single post. I will make a permanent link on the sidebar so it is easy to find it. I
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