GCC 8.5 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

GCC 8.5 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Jakub Jelinek]

The first release candidate for GCC 8.5 is available from

 https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.5.0-RC-20210507/
 ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.5.0-RC-20210507

and shortly its mirrors.  It has been generated from git revision
r8-10959-g3488242b9a949ebc55b4a857380f94506f90ff76.

I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
x86_64-linux and i686-linux.  Please test it and report any issues to
bugzilla.

If all goes well, I'd like to release 8.5 on Friday, May 14th.

Re: GCC 8.5 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[William Seurer]

On 5/7/21 2:48 PM, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc wrote:
> The first release candidate for GCC 8.5 is available from
>
>   https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.5.0-RC-20210507/
>   ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.5.0-RC-20210507
>
> and shortly its mirrors.  It has been generated from git revision
> r8-10959-g3488242b9a949ebc55b4a857380f94506f90ff76.
>
> I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
> x86_64-linux and i686-linux.  Please test it and report any issues to
> bugzilla.
>
> If all goes well, I'd like to release 8.5 on Friday, May 14th.
>
I bootstrapped and tested on powerpc64 power 7 and 8 BE and power 8, 9, 
and 10 LE and saw nothing unexpected.

Re: GCC 8.5 Release Candidate available from gcc.gnu.org

[Iain Sandoe]

William Seurer via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> On 5/7/21 2:48 PM, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc wrote:
>> The first release candidate for GCC 8.5 is available from
>>
>>  https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.5.0-RC-20210507/
>>  ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/8.5.0-RC-20210507
>>
>> and shortly its mirrors.  It has been generated from git revision
>> r8-10959-g3488242b9a949ebc55b4a857380f94506f90ff76.
>>
>> I have so far bootstrapped and tested the release candidate on
>> x86_64-linux and i686-linux.  Please test it and report any issues to
>> bugzilla.
>>
>> If all goes well, I'd like to release 8.5 on Friday, May 14th.
> I bootstrapped and tested on powerpc64 power 7 and 8 BE and power 8, 9,  
> and 10 LE and saw nothing unexpected.

I bootstrapped and tested on i686-darwin8, 9, 10, powerpc-darwin9,  
x86_64-darwin10..20.

Test results are as expected - notably:
    * Darwin20 bootstraps OK, but it is not very usable without further patches (which I will push somewhere once the release is done).
   * Sanitizer support is poor on earlier systems without use of llvm-symbolizer (the installed atos program does not handle the sanitizer output well).

(nothing here that’s a show-stopper, but downstream users are advised to  
make suitable amendments/installations)

thanks
Iain