Re: Request for acceptance of new port (Cell SPU)

2006-10-18 Thread David Edelsohn
> trevor smigiel writes: trevor> We, Sony Computer Entertainment, would like to contribute a port for a trevor> new target, the Cell SPU, and seek acceptance from the Steering trevor> Committee to do so. The GCC Steering Committee welcomes the contribution of the Cell SPU port from So

Re: Problem with listing i686-apple-darwin as a Primary Platform

2006-11-07 Thread David Edelsohn
> Eric Christopher writes: Eric> We're in stage1, breakages happen - see the current fun with gmp/mpfr as Eric> well as c99 inlining. File a bug or bring a problem up for discussion. Yes, breakage happens in Stage 1, but the goal should be no breakage. Breakage is by no means inevita

Re: Problem with listing i686-apple-darwin as a Primary Platform

2006-11-07 Thread David Edelsohn
>>>>> Eric Christopher writes: Eric> On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:24 AM, David Edelsohn wrote: >>>>>>> Eric Christopher writes: >> Eric> We're in stage1, breakages happen - see the current fun with >> gmp/mpfr as Eric> well as c99

Re: bootstrap on powerpc fails

2006-11-07 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kaveh R GHAZI writes: Kaveh> I tried many years ago and Mark objected: Kaveh> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-10/msg00756.html Kaveh> Perhaps we could take a second look at this decision? The average system Kaveh> has increased in speed many times since then. (Although sometimes I

Re: Has anyone seen mainline Fortran regression with SPEC CPU 2000/2006?

2006-11-14 Thread David Edelsohn
> Steve Kargl writes: Steve> I have not seen this failure, but that may be expected Steve> since SPEC CPU 2000 isn't freely available. No failure should be expected. It is a bug and a regression and should be fixed, with help of users who have access to SPEC CPU2000. David

New Type of GCC Maintainer

2006-11-15 Thread David Edelsohn
GCC has increased in size, scope, and complexity, but the number of maintainers has not scaled commensurately. While there is a need for more reviewers, there also is a concern of too many maintainers stepping on one another and GCC development becoming more chaotic. After a lot of brain-storming

Zdenek Dvorak and Daniel Berlin appointed loop optimizer maintainers

2006-11-15 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Zdenek Dvorak and Daniel Berlin as non-algorithmic maintainers of the RTL and Tree loop optimizer infrastructure in GCC. Please join me in congratulating Zdenek and Daniel on their new role. Zdenek and Daniel,

Re: Zdenek Dvorak and Daniel Berlin appointed loop optimizer maintainers

2006-11-15 Thread David Edelsohn
> Zdenek Dvorak writes: Zdenek> thank you. What exactly does "non-algorithmic" mean in this context? Please see the immediately previous announcement to the GCC mailinglist of non-algorithmic maintainers. David

Re: Zdenek Dvorak and Daniel Berlin appointed loop optimizer maintainers

2006-11-16 Thread David Edelsohn
> Richard Guenther writes: Richard> I would rather open a new section if this idiom is supposed to spread more ;-) The plan is to appoint more developers as Non-Algorithmic maintainers. David

Re: PowerPC code gen question

2006-11-16 Thread David Edelsohn
> Michael Eager writes: Michael> Can someone explain to me why FP regs should contain int values? Michael> Is this to support the fcfid conversion instruction? Yes, for FP conversion instructions. Michael> What keeps FP regs from being used to contain integer values? Nothin

Re: 32bit Calling conventions on linux/ppc.

2006-11-24 Thread David Edelsohn
> Joslwah writes: Joslwah> Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to me that Joslwah> floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are supposed to Joslwah> be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack. Examing the resulting Joslwah> stack from a gcc generated C c

Re: powerpc64-gnu libgcc?

2006-11-24 Thread David Edelsohn
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes: Dan> In updating toplevel libgcc, I noticed this in t-ppccomm: Dan> ifneq (,$findstring gnu,$(target)) Dan> ... -mlong-double-128 ... Dan> This suggests it was supposed to apply to both GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd, but Dan> no other PowerPC targets. Is that right? If

Richard Guenther appointed middle-end maintainer

2006-12-04 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Richard Guenther as non-algorithmic middle-end maintainer. Please join me in congratulating Richi on his new role. Richi, please update your listings in the MAINTAINERS file. Happy hacking! David

Re: 32bit Calling conventions on linux/ppc.

2006-12-12 Thread David Edelsohn
> Joslwah writes: Joslwah> Looking at the Linux 32bit PowerPC ABI spec, it appears to me that Joslwah> floats in excess of those that are passed in registers are supposed to Joslwah> be promoted to doubles and passed on the stack. Examing the resulting Joslwah> stack from a gcc generated C c

Re: 32bit Calling conventions on linux/ppc.

2006-12-12 Thread David Edelsohn
> Dale Johannesen writes: Dale> It may have been intended to allow the callee to be a K&R-style or Dale> varargs function, where all float args get promoted to double. Dale> In particular, printf was often called without being declared in K&R- Dale> era code. This is one way to make that c

Eric Christopher appointed Darwin maintainer

2006-12-13 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Eric Christopher as Darwin co-maintainer. Please join me in congratulating Eric on his new role. Eric, please update your listings in the MAINTAINERS file. Happy hacking! David

Re: Built and installed gcc on powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0

2006-12-20 Thread David Edelsohn
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] net writes: jonathan> Configured with: ./configure --with-as=/usr/bin/as jonathan> Had to export DESTDIR for make install in gcc objdir jonathan> to work Thanks for the notification. You will have less problems building and installing GCC if you do not build it i

Re: Build snapshots according to a more regular schedule

2007-01-05 Thread David Edelsohn
Are 4.0 snapshots still necessary? I suspect they should be discontinued. David

Re: gcc 3.4 > mainline performance regression

2007-01-05 Thread David Edelsohn
> Steven Bosscher writes: Steven> What does the code look like if you compile with -O2 -fgcse-sm? Yep. Mark and I recently discussed whether gcse-sm should be enabled by default at some optimization level. We're hiding performance from GCC users. David

Jan Hubicka and Uros Bizjak appointed i386 maintainers

2007-01-08 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Jan Hubicka and Uros Bizjak as co-maintainers of the i386 port. Please join me in congratulating Jan and Uros on their new role. Jan and Uros, please update your listings in the MAINTAINERS file. Happy hacking!

Re: debugging capabilities on AIX ?

2007-01-12 Thread David Edelsohn
> Olivier Hainque writes: Olivier> Working on GCC 4 based GNAT port for AIX 5.[23], our testsuite to Olivier> evaluate GDB (6.4) debugging capabilities currently yields very Olivier> unpleasant results compared to what we obtain with a GCC 3.4 based Olivier> compiler (80+ extra failures out of

Re: gcc doesn't build on ppc

2007-01-18 Thread David Edelsohn
> Mike Stump writes: Mike> gcc doesn't build on powerpc-apple-darwin9: Mike> ../../gcc/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c: In function ‘rs6000_emit_vector_compare’: Mike> ../../gcc/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c:11904: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarat Mike> ions and code Is this due

Re: G++ OpenMP implementation uses TREE_COMPLEXITY?!?!

2007-01-29 Thread David Edelsohn
> Joe Buck writes: Joe> There you go again. Mark did not support or oppose rth's change, he just Joe> said that rth probably thought he had a good reason. He was merely Joe> opposing your personal attack. We're all human, we make mistakes, there Joe> can be better solutions. Joe> If you th

Re: US Daylight Savings Time Changes

2007-02-09 Thread David Edelsohn
> Tom Tromey writes: Tom> David probably knows this, but for others, Jakub and Andrew put in a Tom> patch for this today. I think it is only on trunk, not any other Tom> branches. Should this be included in GCC 4.1.2? David

Re: Some thoughts and quetsions about the data flow infrastracture

2007-02-12 Thread David Edelsohn
> Vladimir Makarov writes: Vlad> Especially I did not like David Edelhson's phrase "and no new Vlad> private dataflow schemes will be allowed in gcc passes". It was not Vlad> such his first expression. Such phrases are killing competition which Vlad> is bad for gcc. What if the new speciali

Re: Some thoughts and quetsions about the data flow infrastracture

2007-02-13 Thread David Edelsohn
Do you realize how confrontational your emails sound? Have you considered asking about the technical reasoning and justification instead of making unfounded assertions? Do you want everyone to refute your incorrect facts point by point? David

Re: Some thoughts and quetsions about the data flow infrastracture

2007-02-13 Thread David Edelsohn
> Jeffrey Law writes: Jeff> I think everyone would be best served if they realized none of this is Jeff> personal -- it's about technical decisions in an effort to improve GCC. GCC development is far from perfect. The recent model generally seems to be effective, although there is pl

Re: Some thoughts and quetsions about the data flow infrastracture

2007-02-13 Thread David Edelsohn
> Vladimir Makarov writes: Vlad> I am just trying to convince that the proposed df infrastructure is not Vlad> ready and might create serious problems for this release and future Vlad> development because it is slow. Danny is saying that the beauty of the Vlad> infrastracture is just in im

Re: Some thoughts and quetsions about the data flow infrastracture

2007-02-13 Thread David Edelsohn
> Vladimir Makarov writes: Vlad> I did investigate the current status of the infrastructure on future Vlad> mainstream processor Core2 (> 11% slower compiler, worse code and bigger Vlad> code size). That is the reason why I started this. You do not believe that this is a concern of

Re: 40% performance regression SPEC2006/leslie3d on gcc-4_2-branch

2007-02-17 Thread David Edelsohn
> Vladimir Sysoev writes: Vladimir> It looks like your changeset listed bellow makes performance Vladimir> regression ~40% on SPEC2006/leslie3d. I will try to create minimal Vladimir> test for this issue this week and update you in any case. I believe that this is known and expected.

RS6000 call pattern clobbers

2007-02-25 Thread David Edelsohn
Richard, While fixing ports in preparation for the new dataflow infrastructure, we found a problem with the way that the rs6000 port represents clobbers and uses of registers in call and sibcall patterns. The patterns clobber and use the rs6000 link register as a match_scratch with constra

Re: vcond implementation in altivec

2007-03-02 Thread David Edelsohn
> Devang Patel writes: >> Is there a reason why op0 is V4SF Devang> It is destination so, yes this is wrong. >> and op1 is V4SI (and not V8HI)? Devang> condition should be v4si, but it is not op1. So this is also not correct. >> And also, why not use if_then_else instead of unspec (in all

Re: We're out of tree codes; now what?

2007-03-12 Thread David Edelsohn
I thought that the Tuples conversion was suppose to address this in the long term. David

Re: Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source

2007-03-13 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kai Tietz writes: > Also I wrote, while doing a small tool for that, a > feature to replace horiz. tabs by spaces. But the question is by which > width should be used ? Tabs always are equivalent to 8 spaces. But please DO NOT replace tabs in the GCC sources with spaces. Ei

Re: Google SoC Project Proposal: Better Uninitialized Warnings

2007-03-19 Thread David Edelsohn
> Joe Buck writes: Joe> What worries me is that we can't afford to make -O0 run significantly Joe> slower than it does now. Cycle speeds are no longer increasing, we have Joe> to be very careful about slowing things down. Adding more passes does not necessarily slow down the compiler

Tobias Burnus and Brooks Moses appointed Fortran maintainers

2007-03-23 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Tobias Burnus and Brooks Moses as Fortran maintainers. Please join me in congratulating Tobias and Brooks on their new role. Tobias and Brooks, please update your listings in the MAINTAINERS file. Happy hacking

Ayal Zaks appointed Modulo Scheduler maintainer

2007-03-23 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Ayal Zaks as Modulo Scheduler maintainer. Please join me in congratulating Ayal on his new role. Ayal, please update your listings in the MAINTAINERS file. Happy hacking! David

Re: Splay Tree

2007-03-29 Thread David Edelsohn
> Brian Makin writes: Brian> I had sent in the paperwork in october 2005. Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian> Brian N. Makin Brian> I can certainly send another if necessary. Did you send in a request for an assignment or did you fill out an assignment yourself? Did you receive an ackno

Re: Implicit altivec vs. linux kernel build

2005-02-27 Thread David Edelsohn
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: Ben> There seem to be a problem with gcc 4.0 and implicit generation of Ben> altivec instructions when -mcpu=970. Ben> The problem is that the kernel cannot afford to use altivec instructions Ben> (nor FPU) except in controlled environment. Specifically, thing

Re: Implicit altivec vs. linux kernel build

2005-02-27 Thread David Edelsohn
> Oh, and there are gcc version that will refuse -mcpu=power4 -maltivec so > I can't even use -mcpu=power4 for the whole kernel and -maltivec just > for the file containing the raid6 code. As Andrew Pinski mentioned, you also can use -mcpu=970 -mno-altivec. That should allow the assembler

Re: GCC 4.1 Projects

2005-02-27 Thread David Edelsohn
> Zdenek Dvorak writes: Zdenek> I must admit I have very bad feeling about the whole "4.1 Projects" Zdenek> stuff. IMHO this over-organizes things. If people in general disagree Zdenek> with the Nathan's changes, or if there are any reasons to think that Zdenek> they are not tested enough or

Re: Implicit altivec vs. linux kernel build

2005-02-27 Thread David Edelsohn
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: Ben> Ok. What I need is -mcpu=power4 -maltivec Sorry, no. -maltivec means generate Altivec code, not just enable Altivec instructions and registers. The above option is not different than -mcpu=970. There is no DWIM option. David

Re: Implicit altivec vs. linux kernel build

2005-02-27 Thread David Edelsohn
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: Ben> The only problem I see is that the day we have a CPU, let's call it Ben> POWER8 for the sake of this demonstration, that has altivec and is Ben> different enough to justify a specific "optimize" option, we'll have to Ben> use -mcpu=POWER8 -mno-altivec for

Re: PowerPC 64 x 32 bits performance

2005-03-04 Thread David Edelsohn
> Edmar Wienskoski writes: Edmar> I checked with several gcc versions. Some of the spec2k Edmar> benchmarks has a considerable performance loss when Edmar> the benchmark is compiled with a 64 bits tool. Edmar> I looked into the assembler code generated for try_route (route.c) Edmar> (compiled

Re: request for timings - makedepend

2005-03-07 Thread David Edelsohn
(a) the numbers reported by the "time" command real0m49.88s user0m11.57s sys 0m3.77s (b) what sort of machine this is and how old IBM pseries POWER4 1.1GHz, AIX 5.2.0.0 David

Re: Libstdc++-v3 vs darwin vs weak support

2005-03-15 Thread David Edelsohn
>>>>> Paolo Carlini writes: >> However, AIX does need them, I think. >> Paolo> Humpf, forgot AIX! David Edelsohn?!? AIX probably needs this support indefinitely. If I remember correctly, the new allocator does not work on AIX due to ELF-like assumpt

Re: maybe a gcc bug

2005-03-25 Thread David Edelsohn
> zouq writes: zouq> first i made gcc-4.1-20050320 a cross-compiler for powerpc. zouq> when i compile the above program, it goes like this: zouq> testcom.c:34: internal compiler error: in schedule_insns, at sched-rgn.c:2549 zouq> who can tell me why? zouq> why can it bring compiler error?

Re: call for testers!

2005-04-04 Thread David Edelsohn
> Geoffrey Keating writes: Geoff> The only work involved, assuming you already have a bootstrapped tree, Geoff> would be to apply the patch and run 'make quickstrap' or even 'make Geoff> gnucompare'; and possibly a single 'cmp' command. This should take Geoff> about 1 minute. make

Re: [gnu.org #222786] GCC Testsuite Tests Exclude List Contribution to FSF

2005-04-06 Thread David Edelsohn
> Toon Moene writes: Toon> We (the GNU Fortran folk) are in trouble too: We're awaiting Toon> affirmation of the receipt of Thomas Koenig's papers (sent from Germany Toon> on the 19th of March). He has quite a few patches to gfortran in the Toon> queue and GCC 4.0 (the first GCC release t

Re: use of extended asm on ppc for long long data types

2005-04-06 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kumar Gala writes: Kumar> Is there anyway to specify a long long data type as a constraint to Kumar> extended asm for powerpc32. If so, how does one specify the registers Kumar> that would have the upper and lower bits The rs6000.md machine description has examples of patterns im

Re: apply_result_size vs FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P

2005-04-07 Thread David Edelsohn
> Richard Earnshaw writes: >> I think the change breaks __builtin_apply/__builtin_return on every >> platform >> that can return values in several contiguous registers, because the entry >> for >> FUNCTION_VALUE_REGNO_P in the manual reads: Richard> That was my thoughts too. You could t

Re: 2 suggestions

2005-04-07 Thread David Edelsohn
> Ray Holme writes: Ray> 2) Much of the time is spent in the several iterations of building a Ray> product doing the convfigure steps. These are repeated ad nauseum with the Ray> results being obtained the hard way each time. As a database person, it Ray> seems to me that by perhaps having a s

Re: Problem compiling GCC 4.0 RC1 on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0

2005-04-11 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kate Minola writes: Kate> Has anyone had success in building gcc-4.0.0 RC1 on a Kate> powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0 (a primary platform)? Kate> After Kate> configure --enable-languages=c Kate> make bootstrap Kate> I get Kate> : [stuff deleted] Kate> : build/genattrtab /home/kate/gcc-4.0.0-2

Re: Problem compiling GCC 4.0 RC1 on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0

2005-04-12 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kate Minola writes: Kate> Any thoughts on what is different between our two machines? Kate> Any suggestions for things to compare? Do you have all of the updates listed in the Target-specific installation notes for AIX installed? David

Re: Problem compiling GCC 4.0 RC1 on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0

2005-04-12 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kate Minola writes: Kate> Err ... what target-specific installation notes for AIX? Kate> Where are you looking? *-ibm-aix* David

Re: Problem compiling GCC 4.0 RC1 on powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0

2005-04-14 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kate Minola writes: Kate> will be contiguous and at the front of the list. As they Kate> are currently scattered among the targets it can be Kate> difficult to find them. In particular, I do not understand Kate> why *-ibm-aix* is between ia64-*-hpus* and ip2k-*-elf: Kate> ia64-*-hpux* Ka

Re: sync operations: where's the barrier?

2005-04-18 Thread David Edelsohn
> Geoffrey Keating writes: Geoff> The documentation for the atomic operation patterns says things like: >> This pattern must issue any memory barrier instructions such that the >> pattern as a whole acts as a full barrier. Geoff> Should the barrier happen before the operation, after the oper

Re: Store scheduling with DFA scheduler

2005-04-26 Thread David Edelsohn
> Nathan Sidwell writes: >> (define_insn_reservation "arith" 1 (eq_attr "type" "arith") "x") >> (define_insn_reservation "loads" 2 (eq_attr "type" "load") "x,m") >> (define_insn_reservation "stores" 3 (eq_attr "type" "store") "x,m*2") Nathan> Stores don't really have a 'result', why have you

Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

2005-04-27 Thread David Edelsohn
> Matt Thomas writes: Matt> Regardless, GCC4.1 is a computational pig. If you are referring to the compiler itself, this has no basis in reality. If you are referring to the entire compiler collection, including runtimes, you are not using a fair comparison or are making extreme stat

Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

2005-04-27 Thread David Edelsohn
> Matt Thomas writes: Matt> That's all positive but if GCC also becomes too expensive to build then Matt> all those extra features become worthless. What is the slowest system Matt> that GCC has been recently bootstrapped on? GCC recently was bootstrapped on a VAX. The GCC b

Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

2005-04-27 Thread David Edelsohn
>>>>> Richard Earnshaw writes: Richard> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 16:31, David Edelsohn wrote: >> The GCC build times are not unreasonable compared to other, >> commercial compilers with similar functionality. And the GCC developers >> ave plans to address ineff

Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

2005-04-28 Thread David Edelsohn
> Andrew Haley writes: Andrew> Yeah, good point. libtool seems to go to extraordinary lengths to Andrew> avoid doing so, I presume because it isn't portable. Current libtool does allow a list of files, but the version used by GCC is not recent. David

Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

2005-04-28 Thread David Edelsohn
> Andrew Haley writes: Andrew> Yes thanks, I've had that pointed out to me. Apparently the real Andrew> issue here is that we have an older version of libtool in the gcc Andrew> tree. Any feature in libtool CVS is fair game to be backported to libtool in GCC. I am planning to backpo

Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

2005-04-28 Thread David Edelsohn
> Joe Buck writes: Joe> Is there a reason why we aren't using a recent libtool? Porting and testing effort to upgrade. David

Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

2005-04-28 Thread David Edelsohn
> Matt Thomas writes: Matt> So in the past day, I've done bootstrap with just c,c++,objc on Matt> both 3.4 and gcc4.1. Matt> While taking out fortran and java reduced the disparity, there Matt> is still a large increase in bootstrap times from 3.4 to 4.1. libstdc++ contains a lot more

Re: How can I write an empty conversion instruction

2005-05-06 Thread David Edelsohn
> Steve Ellcey writes: Steve> I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to write an (empty) Steve> instruction pattern that does a truncate/extend conversion on a register Steve> 'in place'. See extendsfdf2_fpr in rs6000.md David

Re: Targets using implicit extern "C"

2005-05-08 Thread David Edelsohn
> Joseph S Myers writes: Joseph> Are there any in this list which should not be, Joseph> i.e. which should be presumed to have C++-aware headers? Conversely, Joseph> are there any in this list whose maintainers can confirm that the Joseph> headers are not C++-aware and so the current configur

Daniel Berlin and Sebastian Pop maintainerships

2005-05-16 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Daniel Berlin as maintainer of tree-chrec.* tree-data-ref.* tree-scalar-evolution.* tree-ssa-sink.* lambda* and Sebastian Pop as maintainer of tree-chrec.* tree-data-ref.* tree-scalar-evolution.* Daniel and S

Bootstrap broken

2005-05-16 Thread David Edelsohn
The awk patch appears to have broken bootstrap: In file included from /usr/include/sys/localedef.h:44, from /usr/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix5.1.0.0/3.2.3/include/ stdlib.h:447, from /farm/dje/src/src/gcc/system.h:208, from options.c:5:

Re: Bootstrap broken

2005-05-16 Thread David Edelsohn
Sigh. This appears to be a combination of issues related to the new headers being included. First, src/gcc/intl.h includes: #ifndef HAVE_SETLOCALE # define setlocale(category, locale) (locale) #endif and auto-host.h in the build directory includes: /* Define to 1 if you have th

Re: Default value for libiconv in target-supports.exp?

2005-05-16 Thread David Edelsohn
> Mark Mitchell writes: Mark> In the past, if libiconv wasn't set in site.exp, Mark> target_supports.exp:check_iconv_available would crash. So, I changed it Mark> to default to "-liconv". Mark> On GNU/Linux, that's not a very good default, since iconv is in libc. Mark> The same seems to h

AIX bootstrap failure

2005-05-18 Thread David Edelsohn
LAST_UPDATED: Wed May 18 00:10:41 EDT 2005 Wed May 18 04:10:41 UTC 2005 /tmp/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-20050518/./gcc/xgcc -B/tmp/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-20050518/./gcc/ -B/farm/dje/install/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-20050518/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0/bin/ -B/farm/dje/install/powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-200505

Re: powerpc64-linux bootstrap failure

2005-05-18 Thread David Edelsohn
That might be related to the bootstrap failure on AIX as well. Also, the commit modified files not listed in the ChangeLog: gcc/tree-pass.h gcc/cp/method.c adding function tree_lowering_passes() David

Re: powerpc64-linux bootstrap failure

2005-05-18 Thread David Edelsohn
> Jan Hubicka writes: >> That might be related to the bootstrap failure on AIX as well. Jan> Hopefully this is fixed now by Jeff's patch. The libjava failure is fixed, but the patch will not affect the AIX libgfortran failure. I have verified that either the cgraph inlining

Re: [rfc] mainline slush

2005-05-18 Thread David Edelsohn
> Richard Henderson writes: Richard> After three days of sequential bootstrap breakage, I'd like to propose Richard> that mainline go into slush, wherein all these bootstrap problems, and Richard> all the new testsuites failures get fixed. No other patches would be Richard> allowed at all. R

Re: powerpc64-linux bootstrap failure

2005-05-20 Thread David Edelsohn
> Jan Hubicka writes: > Can you please try the attached patch? It fixes ICE on AIX cross for > the testcase Steven sent me. > (the problem seems to be that on AIX we produce function for static > cdtors late in a game and we don't get it properly lowered as it is not > passed throught the IPA

Re: Big differences on SpecFP results for gcc and icc

2005-06-12 Thread David Edelsohn
We have investigated these benchmarks for PowerPC. The high-level analysis is: > Daniel Berlin writes: >> An interesting examples are: >> -177.mesa (this is a c test), where icc is almost 40% faster FP to Int conversion. Dan> SSE Vectorization, I believe. >> -178.galgel, wh

Re: Software pipelining capabilities

2005-06-13 Thread David Edelsohn
> Vasanth writes: Vasanth> My question is, am I expecting the wrong version of GCC to be doing Vasanth> this. I saw the following thread about SMS. Vasanth> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-09/msg00954.html Vasanth> that seems relevant. Would GCC 4.x be a better version for my Vasanth> requir

Re: GCC 4.0.1 RC2

2005-06-18 Thread David Edelsohn
Good to go on AIX 5.2: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2005-06/msg01101.html David

Re: Bootstrap failure -- verify_ssa failed

2005-06-28 Thread David Edelsohn
The same failure occurs on PowerPC: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2005-06/msg00090.html David

Re: updating libtool, etc.

2005-06-30 Thread David Edelsohn
> Geoff Keating writes: Geoff> Does anyone mind if I update libtool to the latest released version, Geoff> 1.5.18, and regenerate everything with automake 1.9.5? If everyone agrees to go forward with this, please work with Mark to schedule a freeze on all other GCC development so th

Re: GCC 4.0.1 RC3

2005-07-04 Thread David Edelsohn
AIX is good: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2005-07/msg00216.html David

Re: A trouble with libssp in one-tree builds

2005-07-05 Thread David Edelsohn
> At the very least, we need a > --disable-libssp option, if that doesn't already exist. This also is needed for targets that do not support libssp. I have had to disable building libssp on AIX using noconfigdirs because it crashes the linker when building other libraries, I think becaus

Re: Some notes on the Wiki (was: 4.1 news item)

2005-07-10 Thread David Edelsohn
> Gabriel Dos Reis writes: Gaby> That is a question I would have loved answered did I endorse its Gaby> predicate. Then by all means continue to use the existing docs in your world and let others create more useful documentation for developers in our world, which appears to be on a d

Re: addsi3 with set condition register

2005-07-14 Thread David Edelsohn
> ibanez writes: ibanez> 2.) ibanez> add_c <- add & update condition register ibanez> But case 2 pattern is not used at all. ibanez> (define_insn "..." ibanez> [ (set (match_operand:SI 0 "register_operand" "=g") ibanez> (plus:SI (match_operand:SI 1 "register_operand" "g") ibanez> (match_

Re: Bug in PPC inline assembly?

2005-07-17 Thread David Edelsohn
> Stefan writes: Stefan> I have some problems with using inline PowerPC assembly in GCC (4.0.1). Stefan> Consider the following code: Stefan> void save_fp_register(double* buffer) Stefan> { Stefan> asm("stfd F0, 0(%0)" : : "r" (buffer) ); Stefan> } Use constraint "b". David

Re: Multilibbing threaded supports

2005-07-20 Thread David Edelsohn
> Kean Johnston writes: Kean> Is it possible (or if not, desirable) to be able to multilib Kean> around the top level --enable-threads option? On systems Kean> where the threads library is separate from libc, being Kean> able to do so makes sense, as you would only want a threaded Kean> versio

Ian Lance Taylor appointed "middle-end" maintainer

2005-08-18 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Ian Lance Taylor to the role of "middle-end" maintainer, joining Roger Sayle. The role covers all files that may get included into libbackend.a. Please join me in congratulating Ian on his new role. Ian, pleas

Ian Lance Taylor appointed "middle-end" maintainer

2005-08-18 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Ian Lance Taylor to the role of "middle-end" maintainer, joining Roger Sayle. The role covers all files that may get included into libbackend.a. Please join me in congratulating Ian on his new role. Ian, pleas

Re: [RFA] Nonfunctioning split in rs6000 back-end

2005-08-22 Thread David Edelsohn
> Paolo Bonzini writes: Paolo> I'm testing a patch that does this replacement, and I can post it Paolo> tomorrow morning. It has triggered only a dozen times so far (half in Paolo> libgcc, half in the compiler), but it may be worth keeping it. It would be nice to keep this type of

Re: Support for the MPC5554 in gcc ?

2005-09-08 Thread David Edelsohn
> Olivier Hainque writes: Olivier> Can GCC 4.X be used to generate code running properly on a MPC5554 Olivier> processor ? The base PowerPC Book-E UISA generated by GCC should work on the MPC5554. I am not sure about the difference between the 5554 e200 core and the 8540 e500 core.

Re: var_args for rs6000 backend

2005-09-09 Thread David Edelsohn
> Yao qi writes: >> Yes. TARGET_HARD_FLOAT is defined as >> >> #define TARGET_HARD_FLOAT ((target_flags & MASK_SOFT_FLOAT) == 0) >> >> The -mhard-float option will clear the MASK_SOFT_FLOAT bit in >> target_flags. Yao> Yes, this option works when I use it in GDB like this, Yao> (gdb) run -

Re: New port contribution - picoChip

2005-09-12 Thread David Edelsohn
> Daniel Towner writes: Daniel> Assuming that my port doesn't require a patch in sched-deps.c, can I Daniel> submit this port to gcc in time for the 4.1 branch, or must I wait Daniel> until afterwards? If I was allowed to submit before the branch, what Daniel> would the deadline be? G

Re: New port contribution - picoChip

2005-09-12 Thread David Edelsohn
A similar issue was raised last Spring and discussed by the GCC Steering Committee. Mark Mitchell summarized the response, including Richard Stallman's comment: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-06/msg00134.html There is no need to resurrect that debate. David

Re: GCC 4.0.2 RC1 Available

2005-09-17 Thread David Edelsohn
Looks good on powerp-ibm-aix5.2.0.0. All expected failures. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2005-09/msg00806.html David

Re: Question on syntax in machine description files.

2005-09-20 Thread David Edelsohn
> Peter Steinmetz writes: Peter> If I see the following on an instruction definition: Peter> (set_attr "type" "*") Peter> What does * represent in this context as the value to assign to "type"? The default value specified when the attr "type" is defined. David

Re: [PATCH, ping] Cray Pointers

2005-09-30 Thread David Edelsohn
> Steven Bosscher writes: Steven> On Friday 30 September 2005 21:36, Asher Langton wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Jack Howarth wrote: >> > Asher, >> >Any progress on the paperwork? >> >> None. I haven't received anything from the FSF. I just pinged them >> again. The FSF does have a di

Re: [PATCH, ping] Cray Pointers

2005-09-30 Thread David Edelsohn
> Steve Kargl writes: Steve> If you review the emails in fortran@ for the few months, you'll find Steve> that the copyright clerk has acknowledged receiving a disclaimer from Steve> Asher. This clerk probably discarded it because it was not a FSF approved Steve> assignment. In addition, sev

Re: 4.0.2 bootstrap comparison failure on AIX 5.3

2005-10-10 Thread David Edelsohn
> Albert Chin writes: Albert> I've built gcc-4.0.2 as follows on AIX 5.3 and am receiving a Albert> bootstrap comparison failure: Albert> $ CC=/usr/vac/bin/cc CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/fsw/bin/bash \ Albert> I don't see anything on Albert> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#x-ibm-aix specific t

Diego Novillo and Daniel Berlin appointed alias analysis maintainers

2005-10-24 Thread David Edelsohn
I am pleased to announce that the GCC Steering Committee has appointed Diego Novillo and Daniel Berlin as alias analysis maintainers -- both Tree-SSA and RTL middle-end. Please join me in congratulating Diego and Daniel on their new role. Diego and Daniel, please update your listi

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