The Arm GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture
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The Arm GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 8.2-2018.11 Release is now
available.
Arm is pleased to announce the first Arm-built release of the pre-built GNU
cross-toolchain for the A-profile cores: GCC 8.2-2018.11. This is the same
toolchain that was previously built and distributed by Linaro.
For the official announcement, see:
https://community.arm.com/tools/b/blog/posts/pre-built-gnu8-cross-toolchain-by-arm-for-the-a-profile-architecture-now-available
For more information about the GNU Arm toolchain and to download the release
packages, see the Arm Developer website at:
https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a
For an explanation of FSF GCC 8 series changes see:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html
For help in porting to GCC 8 see the following explanation:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html
Download the release packages from:
(sources)
https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads
(binaries)
https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads
Previous snapshots and release-candidates for GCC 7 and earlier are at:
(sources) https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/
(binaries) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/
Previous releases for GCC 7 and earlier are at:
http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/
A description of the Arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at:
https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Triples
Host Requirements
==================
* Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64 or later or RHEL 6.9 x86_64:
* x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 ELF bare-metal target
(x86_64-aarch64-elf).
* x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 ELF bare-metal, big-endian
target (x86_64-aarch64_be-elf).
* x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 GNU/Linux target
(x86_64-aarch64-linux-gnu).
* x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 GNU/Linux big-endian target
(x86_64-aarch64_be-linux-gnu).
* x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 bare-metal target
(x86_64-arm-eabi).
* x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 target with soft float
(x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabi).
* x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 target with hard float
(x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf).
* Windows 7 or later, for 32 and 64 bit OS:
* i686-mingw32 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 bare-metal target
(i686-mingw32-arm-eabi).
* i686-mingw32 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 ELF bare-metal target
(i686-mingw32-aarch64-elf).
Package Versions
=================
GCC 8.2.1
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html
FSF glibc 2.28
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-08/msg00000.html
Newlib 3.0.0
https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2018/msg00019.html
GNU Binutils 2.30
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-01/msg00010.html
FSF GDB 8.1.1
https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ANNOUNCEMENT
libiconv 1.15
https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8790
libexpat 2.2.5
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_5/expat/Changes
libgmp 4.3.2
libisl 0.15
libmpfr 3.1.6
libmpc 0.8.2
Sources provided in release source tar ball.
News for GCC 8 (as of GCC 8.2-2018.11)
=======================================
* Bug-fix of "Mingw32 version of GCC 8.2 for ARM Cortex-A family fails to
compile with option '-mabi=ilp32'".
https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4020
* No other changes between this release and GCC 8.2-2018.08.
For more details about Spectre V1 defense in GCC visit:
https://lwn.net/Articles/759423/
Contact Arm
============
For any questions, please use the Arm Communities forums at:
https://community.arm.com/tools/
Please report any bugs via the Linaro Bugzilla at:
https://bugs.linaro.org/
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