Advance Toolchain 15.0-3

Advance Toolchain new location

Since the end of August 2019, Advance Toolchain has been available from a new FTP server: public.dhe.ibm.com

Please be advised the FTP server at Unicamp won't be updated any longer.

New features in 15.0-3

• GCC provides:
  • Version 11.3, see the release notes for details.
  • Fix for ICE when UNION is after the 8th field in a DEC STRUCTURE with -finit-derived -finit-local-zero.
• GNU C Library provides:
  • Fix for LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance degradation.
  • Fix for _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening.
  • Fix for la_symbind*() doesn't get called when LD_BIND_NOW is set.
  • Fix for glob("/foo/*/") may also match regular & other kind of files, not just directories.
  • Fix for Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially enforced.
  • Fix for Migrate away from nested functions.
  • Fix for A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed.
  • Fix for Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is empty.
  • Fix for elf: audit calls that uses static tls might fail.
  • Fix for _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy.
  • Fix for NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup clobbers errno.
  • Fix for poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread cancellation and with cancellation disabled.
  • Fix for GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated).
  • Fix for <dlfcn.h> functions unusable during early auditing.
  • Fix for fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW.
• Binutils provides:
  • Fix for obdump doesn't decode anymore mftb instruction (elf32-powerpc).
• OpenSSL provides:
  • Version 1.1.1o, see the release notes for details.
  • Fix for If no supported_groups are available then we send an empty list.
• Python provides:
  • Version 3.9.12, see the release notes for details.
  • Fix for docstrings of runpy.run_{module,path} are rather sparse.
  • Fix for asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.sock_connect broken for AF_BLUETOOTH.
  • Fix for contextlib.ExitStack.__enter__ has trivial but undocumented behavior.
  • Fix for Constructor of ipaddress.IPv*Interface does not follow documentation.
  • Fix for Crash during encoding using UTF-16/32 and custom error handler.
  • Fix for Missing links to errnos on Built-in Exceptions page.
  • Fix for KeyboardInterrupt should come with a warning.
  • Fix for UnicodeEncodeError: surrogates not allowed when parsing invalid charset.
  • Fix for Missing terminated NUL in the length of sockaddr_un.
  • Fix for Clarifying truncating in documentation.
  • Fix for Inaccurate phrasing in extending/newtypes_tutorial.
  • Fix for ipaddress.ip_{address,network,interface} raises TypeError instead of ValueError if given a tuple as address.
  • Fix for Add test for Calendar().iterweekdays().
  • Fix for Improve documentation for `typing.TypeVar`.
  • Fix for ProcessPoolExecutor exception memory leak.
  • Fix for Fix a BrokenPipeError when a multiprocessing.Queue is garbage collected.
  • Fix for math.nan should note that NANs do not compare equal to anything.
  • Fix for Avoid sporadic failure of test_compileall on Windows.
  • Fix for Copy pgort140.dll when building for PGO.
  • Fix for Upgrade to zlib v1.2.12 in CPython binary releases.
  • Fix for posix.sched_{get|set}affinity(-1) no longer returns ProcessLookup causing test failures on FreeBSD.
  • Fix for New compiler warnings with latest zlib.
  • Fix for xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader.getProperty (xml.sax.handler.property_xml_string) returns bytes.

Packages in 15.0-3

• The Advance Toolchain is a self contained toolchain which isn't reliant on the base system toolchain.
• Base toolchain packages:
  • GNU Binutils - 2.37.0-44f1cd7f536f online docs
  • Expat XML Parser - 2.4.3-1e1b52be2d9e online docs
  • GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) - 11.3.1-9e05d10d3186 [C, C++ (g++), fortran, Go] online docs
  • GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (Libstdc++-v3) - 11.3.1-9e05d10d3186 online docs
  • GNU Libgomp - 11.3.1-9e05d10d3186 online docs
  • GNU C Library - 2.34-e123f08ad5ea online docs
  • GNU Multiple Precision Library - 6.1.2 online docs
  • GNU MPC Library - 1.1.0-69ad1bcb8e9e online docs
  • GNU MPFR Library - 4.0.2 online docs
• Additional support libraries, including some additional floating point support libraries:
  • Decimal Floating Point C Library - 1.0.16-ff629deadfd1 online docs
  • Libhugetlbfs - 2.23-6b126a4d7da9 online docs
  • Libvecpf - 1.1.0 online docs
  • Open Secure Sockets Layer - 1.1.1o-c7d6c08290b6 online docs
  • IBM Power Architecture Facilities Library - 0.3.0-cbb41aa0538a online docs
  • Power Vector Library - 1.0.4-64246b4af539 online docs
  • Python - 3.9.12-4a2337fe33a8 online docs
  • TCMalloc - 2.9.1-f7c6fb6c8e99 online docs
  • ZLIB Compression Library - 1.2.11-ba9df2111e9c online docs
• Development tools:
  • GDB (GNU Debugger) - 10.2.90-d19bc28bf80b online docs
• Additional performance and debugging tools:
  • Valgrind - 3.17.0-dde556d51f82 online docs
• Additional multi core support libraries:
  • Boost - 1.76.0 online docs
  • SPHDE - 1.4.0-10897accedb5 online docs
  • Userspace RCU - 0.13.1-212284793304 online docs
  • Thread Building Blocks - 2021.6.0-4533e4ff0f0a online docs