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<patchinfo incident="5845">
  <category>recommended</category>
  <rating>low</rating>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1056437">[TRACKERBUG] FATE#323972: [Toolchain Module] Summer 2017 Refresh</issue>
  <issue tracker="fate" id="323972">[Toolchain Module] Summer 2017 Refresh</issue>
  <issue tracker="fate" id="321452">[Toolchain Module] POWER9 - GCC P9 enabling and exploitation with >= GCC 6.2</issue>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1062592">[TRACKERBUG] FATE#321452: [Toolchain Module] POWER9 - GCC P9 enabling and exploitation with >= GCC 6.2</issue>
  <issue tracker="fate" id="321496">[Toolchain Module] Add new s390x instruction support in toolchain - gcc part</issue>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1062591">[TRACKERBUG] FATE#321496: [Toolchain Module] Add new s390x instruction support in toolchain - gcc part</issue>
  <packager>rguenther</packager>
  <summary>Optional update for gcc7</summary>
  <description>
The GNU Compiler GCC 7 is being added to the Toolchain Module by this update.

New features:

- Support for specific IBM Power9 processor instructions.
- Support for specific IBM zSeries z14 processor instructions.
- New packages cross-npvtx-gcc7 and nvptx-tools added to the Toolchain Module for
  specific NVIDIA Card offload support.

The update also supplies gcc7 compatible libstdc++, libgcc_s1 and other gcc derived
libraries for the base products of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.

Various optimizers have been improved in GCC 7, several of bugs fixed, quite some new
warnings added and the error pin-pointing and fix-suggestions have been greatly improved.

The GNU Compiler page for GCC 7 contains a summary of all the changes that have happened:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html
</description>
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