Advance Toolchain 11.0-4

New features in 11.0-4

• GCC provides:
• Support for x86 SSE3 and SSSE3 intrinsics.
• Fix enabling gccgo tests on ppc64.
• Fix for PowerPC xmmintrin.h emulation for _mm_{min,max}_ps not semantically equivalent.
• Fix for PPC64 implementation of ./rs6000/emmintrin.h gives out of range for _mm_slli_epi32.
• Fix for mmintrin.h intrinsic headers for PowerPC code fails on power9.
• Fix for PowerPC complex multiply/divide calls the wrong function when -mabi=ieeelongdouble.
• Fix for PowerPC: Using -mabi=ieeelongdouble calls wrong function for __builtin_powi.
• Fix for numerous big-endian issues with compatibility implementations of vector intrinsics for powerpc.
• Fix for r266868 breaks gcc.target/powerpc/undef-bool-2.c on powerpc64.
• The GNU C Library provides:
• Fix for CVE-2018-19591: if_nametoindex: Fix descriptor for overlong name.
• Fix stack overflow with huge PT_NOTE segment.
• Build some IFUNC math functions for libc and libm.
• Don't return ifa entries with NULL names.
• Fix netgroup cache keys.
• Fix nscd readlink argument aliasing.
• Avoid use of strlen in getlogin_r.
• Fix p_secstodate overflow handling.
• Fix path length overflow in realpath.
• Properly cleanup if first helper thread creation failed.
• Fix crash in resolver on memory allocation failure.
• Fully initialize struct mmsghdr in send_dg.
• Fix blocking pthread_join.
• Fix parameter type in C++ version of iseqsig.
• Avoid _allocate_buffer, _free_buffer function pointers.
• Disable vtable validation in case of interposition.
• Use _STRUCT_TIMESPEC as guard in .
• Remove part under a non-free license.
• Fix waiters-after-spinning case.
• Use correct type for si_band in siginfo_t.
• Fix misreported errno on preadv2/pwritev2.
• Do not return NULL on asprintf failure in gettext.
• Always call memcpy in _int_realloc.
• Binutils provides:
• Fix symbol resolution with linker plugins for defsym symbols.
• Fix memory corruption when using memcpy to overwrite a string in place.
• Add new plugin interface to get list of symbols wrapped with --wrap option.
• Add new option -z,keep-text-section prefix.
• Golang provides:
• Go 1.9.7.
• Fix enabling debug information.
• Fix comparison of long byte slices on s390x.
• Improve performance on ppc64x (unrolling loops, AddMulVVW, mulAddVWW, and addVW/subVW).
• Implement faster atomics for ppc64x.
• Use unsigned loads for multi-element comparisons.
• OProfile provides fix to recognize Power9.
• OpenSSL provides:
• Fix for CVE-2018-0732.
• Fix for CVE-2018-0734.
• Fix for CVE-2018-0735.
• Fix for CVE-2018-5407.

Packages in 11.0-4

• The Advance Toolchain is a self contained toolchain which isn't reliant on the base system toolchain.
• Base toolchain packages:
  • GNU Binutils - 2.29-8efd17cb2568 online docs
  • Expat XML Parser - 2.2.3-97c6bd019900 online docs
  • GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) - 7.4-268000 [C, C++ (g++), fortran, Go] online docs
  • GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (Libstdc++-v3) - 7.4-268000 online docs
  • GNU Libgomp - 7.4-268000 online docs
  • GNU C Library - 2.26-c49ad9bdc9ec online docs
  • GNU Multiple Precision Library - 6.1.2 online docs
  • GNU MPC Library - 1.0.3 online docs
  • GNU MPFR Library - 3.1.6-12174 online docs
• Additional support libraries, including some additional floating point support libraries:
  • Libauxv - 1.1.0 online docs
  • Decimal Floating Point C Library - 1.0.13-62cdd3a online docs
  • Libhugetlbfs - 2.20-e441800 online docs
  • Libvecpf - 1.1.0 online docs
  • Open Secure Sockets Layer - 1.1.0j-47c55f881ffe online docs
  • IBM Power Architecture Facilities Library - 0.3.0-cbb41aa0538a online docs
  • Python - 3.6.6-4cf1f54eb764 online docs
  • TCMalloc - 2.6-e033431e5a9e online docs
  • ZLIB Compression Library - 1.2.11 online docs
• Development tools:
  • GDB (GNU Debugger) - 8.0.1-378272cef651 online docs
• Additional performance and debugging tools:
  • Libpfm - 4.8.0-f3c229370d40 online docs
  • OProfile - 1.2.0-4a518527ba22 with Java Support online docs
  • Valgrind - 3.13.0-16446 online docs
• Additional multi core support libraries:
  • Boost - 1.64.0 online docs
  • SPHDE - 1.4.0-6a630fad0fbe online docs
  • Userspace RCU - 0.10.2-092940443356 online docs
  • Thread Building Blocks - 2017_U8-75224c4c1f3c online docs
• Golang:
  • Golang - 1.9-89fdb3ccf73c online docs