[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 September 2013

[Omair Javaid]

== Progress ==

(TCWG-270)
* Tested GDB Process Record/Replay and reverse debug feature for arm.
* Thumb32 support patch along with a couple of bug fixes made huge
improvement in testsuite results.

(TCWG-267) and (TCWG-269)
* Reviewed all previous submitted patches and wrote response patch updates.
* Implemented gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-error.exp using dwarf assembler.

(TCWG-268)
* Submitted patch for failing gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-case-insensitive.exp

(TCWG-272)
* Re-viewed and verified gdb bugs reported on launchpad and created
JIRA cards where required.

(TCWG-265)
* Generated Test data to test instruction decoding in arm specific
code of gdb process record/replay.

(TCWG-280)
* Reviewed previously submitted patches related to gdb process record
syscall support for arm targets.

* Submitted US Visa application for processing and got appointment for
Visa Interview.

* Reviewed all open JIRA cards and created new ones for future progress on GDB

== Plan ==

(TCWG-270)
* Submitt patch for bug fixes and show testsuite improvement with bug
fixes and thumb32 patch.
* Do more testing and analyse failures and try to fix them if possible.
* Verify issues reported by maintainers in old arm instruction decoding code.

(TCWG-267), (TCWG-268) and (TCWG-269)
* Update gdb/testsuite/gdb.dwaf2/dw2-error.exp as asked by gdb maintainers.
* Ping or Send response to comments.

(TCWG-280)
* Test syscall support with old patch and make changes if required.

* Travel to Islamabad on Tuesday to attend US visa interview early
morning Wednesday.

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[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 September 2013

[Kugan]

== Progress ==
 * MPFR and GMP Build error with Latest 4.8 Release
- Reproduced MPFR error with a simplified testcase
- Found the buggy codesequence and the patch that introduced it.
- Looking at solution for this
- Reprdouced GMP error with -march=armv7-a and -mthumb
- continuing with the invetigation

 * 64bit division
- Looked at current libgcc implementaion and studied the alorithm.

 * Addressing patch review
- Posted second patch for zero/sign extension

 * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86
- Ran spec2k with various options to validate code analysis

== Plan ==
 * Continue with spec2k comparison between ARM and x86
 * Continue 64bit division
 * Fix GMP and MPFR build error

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[ACTIVITY] 23-27 September 2013

[Venkataramanan Kumar]

Short week (Tuesday and Wednesday went to US consulate Chennai for
VISA interview and document processing).

== Progress ==
* gprof support for aarch64
Re-based and tested. Asked permission for upstreaming in trunk.
Gibc patches are upstreamed. Thanks to Marcus.

* Aarch64 Boot strap failure.
  Tried to reproduce it in V8 model. Build failing in stage 1 for me.

* 1-1 Meet with Christophe.

== Plan ==
*  Back to libssp support.

*  Aarch64 boot strap issue.

== Issues ==
* LTO/PGO work stopped now since libssp support priority is more.

Misc
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October 2 India Holiday.

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