* Linaro GCC
Discovered that part of my conditional execution problems were caused by
some over-zealous peephole optimizations adding CC register clobbers to
arithmetic operations in order to take advantage of the 16-bit encoding.
This is a problem because they can't be converted to conditional
execution so freely because overwriting the CC register prevents any
further conditional execution (and forces a 32-bit encoding
unnecessarily). I wrote a patch to help ifcvt unpick all this and DTRT,
and posted it upstream. It turns out that Benrd (I think) already
reimplemented the peephole optimization in the reorg pass, so all that
is really needed is to delete the now obsolete peepholes. Richard E has
approved the revised patch. Unfortunately I've now discovered that that
exposed a bug in the machine description, so that'll have to be fixed also.
Tried to update the gcc-linaro/4.7 branch, but found the build broken.
In fact, Matthias had already reported it to Bugzilla. I did a binary
search, identified the problem commit, posted the info to bugzilla, and
pushed a merge request for the last working commit for testing. This
tested ok, so I've merged it to the Linaro 4.7 trunk.
Brought the Linaro GCC patch tracker up to date to aid identification of
patches we will need to forward port to 4.7. The remaining 'red' patches
are either not committed upstream, or I wasn't sure.
Attempted to benchmark the 64-bit shift improvements, but the target
board (ursa1) has developed an I/O error.
* Other
Joe Seymour and I went to HP Bristol to attend one of their science
lectures. Professor Jim Al-Khalili gave a talk about the recent
"faster-than-light" neutrinos experiments, and explained why it can't
possibly be true.
http://www.jimal-khalili.com/blog/faster-than-the-speed-of-light.html
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