GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain 6-2017-q1-update
6 update 1 release.
Milestone information
- Project:
- GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain
- Series:
- 6.0
- Version:
- 6-2017-q1-update
- Released:
- Registrant:
- Prakhar Bahuguna
- Release registered:
- Active:
- No. Drivers cannot target bugs and blueprints to this milestone.
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- Assigned to you:
- No blueprints or bugs assigned to you.
- Assignees:
- 1 Thomas Preud'homme
- Blueprints:
- No blueprints are targeted to this milestone.
- Bugs:
- 2 Fix Released
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Release notes
The 6 2017q1 update release is available at:
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* https:/
* https:/
IMPORTANT NOTICE: As previously announced we are no longer releasing the binary packages of this toolchain on Launchpad, please see the link for developer.arm.com above.
New Features
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* All GCC 6 features, plus latest mainline features:
+ Full ARMv8-M support including atomics and Security Extensions
+ ARM PURECODE support for ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M Mainline
+ Co-processor intrinsics support
+ Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 support
+ -mthumb optional for Cortex-M devices
* Support for OS-retargeting of locking routines in newlib
Important bugs fixed in 6 major release:
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* Fix redundant load in loop
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* Fixed stack corruption when using high registers and LR register
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* Fixed internal compiler error when compiling empty FIQ interrupt handler
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* Fix internal compiler error with LTO when building g++.dg/lto/20081219 testcase
* Fixed callee-saved register trashing when clobbering SP register
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* Fixed internal compiler error when using -mslow-flash-data and floating-point
operations
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* Fixed wrong code generation with indirect sibbling calls
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* Fixed spurious code removal
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Important bugs fixed in 6 update 1 release:
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* Fix Mac GDB crash with invalid commands
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* Fix Windows wildcard support
* Fix selection of newlib.h variant with nano.specs and g++
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* Allow VCMP immediate without prefix in unified syntax
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Known Changes and Issues
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* Thumb1 code size regression due to new register allocation:
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* Multilib is now enabled with --with-
toolchain from source
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0 blueprints and 2 bugs targeted
Bug report | Importance | Assignee | Status | |||
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1641333 | #1641333 | .syntax unified - VCMP immediate still requires # | 1 Undecided | 10 Fix Released | ||
1661882 | #1661882 | arm-none-eabi-g++ pulls the wrong version of newlib.h if -specs=nano.specs selected | 1 Undecided | Thomas Preud'homme | 10 Fix Released |