> The latest webcast was a performance comparison of z10 and z196. There
> was a suggestion that gcc fixes would be pushed upstream for -march.
> Also the IBM JVM would be updated to benefit. That might be more
> important for most people.

The Binutils and GCC support for z196 has just been applied to the upstream 
repos:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-09/msg00457.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-10/msg00309.html

So z196 support will be available with binutils 2.21 and GCC 4.6.0.

Bye,

-Andreas-

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