gcc-6-20150927 is now available

2015-09-27 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-6-20150927 is now available on
  ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/6-20150927/
and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details.

This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 6 SVN branch
with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk revision 228178

You'll find:

 gcc-6-20150927.tar.bz2   Complete GCC

  MD5=b1717d55199a4973f8f7e7752ad0ec74
  SHA1=d8fa923ca4087e562e68d995ccc406bae91bf190

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Re: September 2015 GNU Toolchain Update

2015-09-27 Thread Alan Modra
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 01:33:34PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
>   * The new PowerPC64 specific linker command line option
> --no-save-restore-funcs  tells the linker not to provide the
> out-of-line register save and restore functions used by -Os compiled
> code.  The default is to provide any such referenced function for
> a normal final link, but not do so for a relocatable link.

Actually, --save-restore-funcs and --no-save-restore-funcs have been
around since 2014-02.  The recent new PowerPC64 option is
--tls-get-addr-optimize, a complement to --no-tls-get-addr-optimize.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM