Re: WTF?

2009-11-25 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:17 -0500, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > Finally, we have a process for reverting a patch. If anyone wants to > revert some part, it needs to be followed. Otherwise *that* would be > breaking the rules... Won't reverting the patch just attribute all of the lines to the usernam

Re: help regarding instruction scheduling in gcc - dfa(deterministic finite automaton)

2009-10-18 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 08:17 -0700, ddmetro wrote: > 1. The starting point of generation of dfa(by reading md files) is > 'genautomata.c'. When is the main() method of 'genautomata.c' called? genautomata is compiled into the build/genautomata binary in your build tree. It is then invoked during t

Re: problems with gcc installation

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 01:16 -0700, yzysea wrote: > I need to intall gcc-2.5.8 on opensolaris. In the "make" step, I get the > following message: This is the GCC development list, not a list for answering questions about how to compile up and use GCC. Please take your question to the gcc-h...@

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-14 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 08:33 +0200, Michael Matz wrote: > So, why not just move them to dead-branches now, and be done with it? OK, your argument has convinced me. :-) Cheers, Ben

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 03:05 +0200, Michael Matz wrote: > I don't think we should necessarily limit ourself by bugs in foreign tools > if it reduces useful information. What about a new top-level directory > dead-branches/, not under branches/ but parallel to it? Should be easy to > exempt fro

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Elliston
; history of such branches readily available? If that happens to be true with some future version control system, couldn't we restore the deleted branches before running whatever conversion tool exists? Ben -- Ben Elliston Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: how to get the .dfa output file in gcc

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:37 -0700, ddmetro wrote: > 1. In the initiate_automaton_gen() function of 'genautomata.c', initialize > the v_flag variable to 1 i.e., v_flag = 1; It should not be necessary to do this. Can you retry with the .md syntax? Ben

Re: LTO merge - free_lang_data

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 12:01 -0400, Diego Novillo wrote: > Since the patch is rather large and it affects the other LTO > merge activities, I've been thinking about ways of making it > easier and avoid conflicts: > > 1- Keep working on my local tree; combining both free_lang_data and >early de

Re: Difference between Windows and Linux GCC compiler

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi. > I'm interested to know what is the difference in programming using MS > Visual C++ on Windows and using the GCC compiler on Linux, i.e. what > are some of the things I can do on Visual C++ that won't compile/run > on Linux, and vice versa. This mailing list is for discussing GCC development

Re: Porting GCC 4.4.0 to interix

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:58 +0100, Robert Oeffner wrote: > Until now there is no compiler available for interix that supports OpenMP > and that's what I'm after. As libgomp in GCC so far isn't targeting interix > I have made some changes to libgomp in my copy of the GCC 4.4.0 > distribution. l

Re: [testsuite] Executing testcases under wine

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Elliston
> I'm trying to run the GCC testsuite for the mingw target, on a i686- > darwin host. The cross compiler builds fine, and I have wine > installed, so I'd like testsuite executables, once compiled, to simply > run under wine (that means, instead of running "PR10431.exe", running > "wine PR104

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Elliston
This thread is off-topic for the GCC mailing list. Please follow up on gnu.misc.discuss or some other suitable forum. Thanks, Ben

Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers

2009-06-09 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 21:13 +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > This is precisely my point. It should be perfectly acceptable that some > people be authorized to approve some few patches without understanding > the whole of GCC, and even without knowing all of it. I sympathise with this point

Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers

2009-06-09 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 19:00 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > I think it's a much better idea to contact Fred (or Freda, for that matter) > Bloggs to ask them if they want to maintain reload. :-) Wouldn't it be Alan Smithee to maintain reload? :-) Ben

Re: Any comment about the replacement of gcc news?

2009-06-03 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 16:33 +0800, Eric Fisher wrote: > Sorry, I hope it's not an offensive or boring topic. No, just off-topic. This list is for developing gcc, not plotting our demise. Cheers, Ben

Re: Do we have optimizations to reduce cache miss?

2009-05-25 Thread Ben Elliston
> I just want to ask whether we have any special pass to reduce cache > miss? Or any idea or branch to enhance it. There are various data layout optimisations. There is also -Os ;-) Ben

Re: Type-punning warnings [was Re: PATCH: silence warnings in unwind-dw2-fde.c]

2009-05-19 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:57 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote: > The patch is ok. I fell off the Cc: list, but I assume you are talking to me. :-) Thanks, Ben

Re: new warnings building cp-demangle.c

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 17:40 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote: > We have > > enum gnu_v3_ctor_kinds { > gnu_v3_complete_object_ctor = 1, > gnu_v3_base_object_ctor, > gnu_v3_complete_object_allocating_ctor > }; > > What does > > (kind < gnu_v3_complete_object_ctor > && kind > gnu_v3_complete_o

new warnings building cp-demangle.c

2009-05-18 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Ian In the last couple of days, I have started seeing the following warnings when building target-libiberty: /home/bje/source/gcc-clean/libiberty/cp-demangle.c:723: warning: logical ‘and’ of mutually exclusive tests is always false /home/bje/source/gcc-clean/libiberty/cp-demangle.c:742: warni

Re: Request about adding a new micro support

2009-05-10 Thread Ben Elliston
> How can I add to gcc support for a 8-bit micro (Harvard architecture)? > An RTFM link would be really appreciated. :-) This question really belongs on the gcc-h...@gcc.gnu.org mailing list. The GCC internals manual can be found at: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint Ben

Re: Documentation on running dejagnu with qemu?

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 14:52 -0700, Doug Kwan (關振德) wrote: > I would like to run the testsuite using qemu as the gdb simulator does > not support newer ARMs. However, there does not seems to be any good > documents on that topic. Could someone give me a pointer or two? If you are running a full

Re: new offset outside bounds of constant string warning

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Elliston
On Manuel's recommendation, I have backed out revision 145102 for the time being. If someone wishes to have another go at it, the code is in svn. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston Australia Development Lab, IBM

new offset outside bounds of constant string warning

2009-04-22 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi HJ According to svn annotate, it was you who authored the new 'offset outside bounds of constant string warning' warning in GCC (well, I think so, anyway). The compiler now complains about some code in the C++ demangler: /home/bje/source/gcc-trunk/libiberty/cplus-dem.c:2651: warning: offset ‘

Re: Question about top-level configure code and in-tree builds

2009-04-15 Thread Ben Elliston
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 23:56 -0400, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > Ah, but cake is only easy when someone else bakes it. :-) While you're baking, Kaveh :-) could you see if your patch could also fix: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34818 Thanks, Ben

Re: The gcc-in-cxx branch now completes bootstrap

2009-04-11 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 22:37 +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote: > Is there any reasonably simple way to find out why the C++ version is > slower? I can use something like oprofile, of course, but I thought > gcc can somehow give statistics about its internal times, which might > be more useful for a fir

Re: Intermittent/non-reproducible gcc testsuite failures

2009-04-08 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 23:45 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: > I'm running the gcc test suite on powerpc-unknown-eabisim > on the trunk and I get results which are different from > one run to the next. When I run the failing tests by > hand, all pass. Mike Stein also has noted that some of > the test

Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)

2009-03-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 18:30 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > And there certainly are successful projects using a subset of C++ too. > Whether you have not seen them is, well, a different matter :-) I could well even be using such software--I'm just not aware of it. :-) Can you give some indicati

Re: Playing with gcc-testresult results

2009-03-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 18:09 +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote: > Interestingly, the results show that no compiler has more test results > posted than GCC 4.4.0, which hasn't even been released yet! It looks > like there are many results from ia64 and x86_64 automatic testers > these days. Also interest

Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)

2009-03-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 17:43 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > Well, the request was not about the full gamut of C++, but rather > a subset. And the time of the discussion, I thought the subset > was quite conservative. Every programming language can > be abused -- and I don't think I've made an ex

Re: Is there any flags to disable warning and/or errors given by GCC 4.3.3?

2009-03-22 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi. This question is not really suitable for the GCC mailing list; this is a list for discussing GCC development. The right place to send such questions is gcc-h...@gcc.gnu.org. Thanks. >I am not able compile my project with GCC 4.3.3 C++. My project > was compiled by GCC 4.1.x. It's

Re: GCC C FRONT END EXPLANATION

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Elliston
Ah, good, a duplicate question that I just answered. :-) See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-03/msg00554.html Ben

Re: gcc c grammar

2009-03-19 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 23:29 -0300, Eduardo Cruz wrote: > I thought gcc used bison as a syntax analyser, but when I saw the gcc > c-parser source code I realized that it didn't use bison. > I read in the gcc mailist that gcc now has a recursive descent parser. That's right. > Do you have any docu

Re: missing return statement

2009-03-12 Thread Ben Elliston
(Note that this is really a question for gcc-help.) On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 23:42 +, Nathan Ridge wrote: > Why does gcc not give an error about this? > If I compile with "-Wall", it will give a WARNING saying > "control reaches end of non-void function". You can turn this warning into an error

Re: The gcc-in-cxx branch now completes bootstrap

2009-03-09 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 21:25 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Also, is there any significant difference in bootstrap times? > > I haven't actually measured, but subjectively bootstrap does seem to > take longer. A subjective assessment was all I was interested in. Thanks, Ben

Re: The gcc-in-cxx branch now completes bootstrap

2009-03-09 Thread Ben Elliston
> I'm curious whether there are any detectable differences in the resulting > compiler when built with g++ rather than gcc. E.g. testsuite regressions, > changes in the speed or size of cc1, etc. Also, is cc1 linked with > libstdc++.so ? Stuff like that. Also, is there any significant differenc

Re: [Ada] Fix Windows merge glitch

2009-03-01 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:31 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > * gcc-interface/Makefile.in (cygwin/mingw): Revert accidental > EH_MECHANISM change in r130816. I've seen a few ChangeLog entries like this of late, so thought I would raise something: is it now accepted practice to mention SVN

Re: make install fails to create gcc ?

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Elliston
> In any case . .the gcc binary is missing in action .. did make install > fail in some weird way ? Possibly, but make should have failed also. Ben

Re: Plugin API Comments (was Re: GCC Plug-in Framework ready to port)

2009-02-05 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 01:59 -0500, Sean Callanan wrote: > Our plugins do not break when switching compiler binaries. In fact, I > have had plug-in binaries that perform very simple tasks work fine > when switching (minor!) compiler releases. Thinking about this made me realise that the plugi

Re: GCC Plug-in Framework ready to port

2009-02-01 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 14:26 -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: > Yes, that's the path I was describing; plugins distributed with GCC. > I don't expect we'll have more than a small number of them. Mostly as > examples. The usual problem with example plugins is that they stop working. It would be nice i

incorrect license on some gcc/*.c files?

2009-01-28 Thread Ben Elliston
After reading about the new runtime license, I did some grepping through the gcc/ directory to see how many files would need updating. I was surprised to discover three files that are part of GCC proper, but are still under GPLv2. Shouldn't these all be GPLv3? M tree-parloops.c M ipa-s

Re: GCC RES: Restrictive Exception Specification: 0.1 - Alpha. Feedback Request.

2009-01-26 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Simon > I recently (on 18/12/2008) mailed a GCC patch to this mailing list, > but I went on holiday after and have only just arrived back. I > probably should have asked for some feedback then. Thanks for taking the time to describe your work in the right amount of detail. I think you need a

Re: cross-compilation, deprecated option and libgcc

2009-01-26 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:19 +0100, Vincent R. wrote: > 1) When I compile bootstrap gcc, I am using make all-gcc and make > install-gcc and it seems it doesn't build libgcc anymore. I think that's correct; make all-gcc just builds gcc these days. To build libgcc, you need to run make all-target-l

Re: -fgraphite docs

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:20 -0600, Sebastian Pop wrote: > > Perhaps we should add a comment to common.opt to explain this? > > Yes, we could apply this patch. Looks good to me (and I think it qualifies as obvious) :-). Thanks, Ben

Re: -fgraphite docs

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> > Is this an oversight, or are these options deprecated? > > These options are intentionally not documented: they should not be > used by programmers. Perhaps we should add a comment to common.opt to explain this? Ben

-fgraphite docs

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Sebastian While reading through the Graphite code on the trunk, I noticed that -fgraphite and -fgraphite-identity are no documented in doc/invoke.texi. Is this an oversight, or are these options deprecated? Ben -- Ben Elliston Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: Useless option parsing code in genautomata.c ?

2009-01-15 Thread Ben Elliston
> Now I just set v_flag to 1 manually in code to get the output, but I > don't think it is a correct way. > Anyone could tell me the correct way to output automata description, > or help me to confirm this bug? I don't think there is a bug. What do you have in your define_automaton directive? No

Re: GCC 4.4 SNAPSHOT - BUILD ERROR

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Elliston
> Could someone help ? Sure, there is even a mailing list: gcc-h...@gcc.gnu.org. ;-) > checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in > `/home/meu/gcc-4.4-20090109/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': > configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile > See `config.log

Re: gcc binary download

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Elliston
> I cannot find where to download gcc binary for Linux. Can you email me > the link? It's so confusing in the http://gcc.gnu.org/ web site. You should install gcc from your Linux distribution. It will be far easier. Ben

Re: Installing GCC:Configuration (GCC-4.3.2)

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:48 -0500, Franklyn Simon wrote: > I download gcc-g++4.3.2 and uncompressed it along with the > prerequisites tar files in directory (/opt). I am confused as to the > srcdir and objdir mentioned in Install GCC: Configuration. You should take this question to gcc-h...@gc

Re: gcc-4.3.2 build break at multilib glibc

2008-12-15 Thread Ben Elliston
> We need to use newlib. when to link with gcc ? whether using newlib will > solve the above error ? It will. One way that you can get gcc to build newlib is to sym link the newlib sources into the gcc tree. The GCC build system will detect this and build newlib for you: cd gcc-4.3

Re: gcc-4.3.2 build break at multilib glibc

2008-12-15 Thread Ben Elliston
> Hi, I am trying to cross compile the gcc-4.3.2 for arm based dsp target. > The following error occurs. Building a cross-compiler for an embedded target requires a little bit of know-how, usually best obtained from various guides on the net. You are getting these errors because you need a C libr

Re: should make check be done "un-installed"?

2008-12-05 Thread Ben Elliston
> The implication of the opening statement of http://gcc.gnu.org/ > install/test.html is that "make check" could (or even should) be done > before "make install" > > Is this a correct interpretation of policy? Yes, the testsuite is designed to test the compiler in the build tree. It is also p

Re: g77 correct version

2008-12-01 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Angela > I would like to install a g77 on my version of Linux that is Scientific > Linux SL-52-062608-i386. > I tried to install 3 packages of g77 but I don't know what is the package > suitable for me and my Linux version. This mailing list is for discussing the development of gcc and g77, ra

Re: [lto] Spurious failures in lto tests with -jN

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> I've noticed some spurious failures in the lto tests (g++.dg/lto and > gcc.dg/lto). They only occur with -jN. The symptom is an error > message from ld complaining that a .lto.ltrans.o file is missing. I > think this is a bug in the lto.exp script because the tests work fine > with -j1. I ass

Re: Variadic template function full specialization.

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Elliston
you've found a bug in g++). The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is probably a better place to ask your question. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: Building GCC 4.3.2 on powerpc-yellowdog-linux-gnu

2008-10-30 Thread Ben Elliston
ld not have to make any of these changes to bootstrap GCC 4.3.2 on a PowerPC GNU/Linux system. We build these compilers regularly and do not have to do this. I think you're probably building GCC incorrectly. Please follow-up with a list of your steps to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 16:10 -0700, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: > The last time this came up, the consensus was that we should not hard fail > the configure script even if the user would then be missing some mpfr bugfix > in the latest/greatest release. That's why we have the minimum/recommended > sp

Re: Extending a backend

2008-10-02 Thread Ben Elliston
> Load rt, s2(s18) > Store s2(s18), rc > > However after searching and reading a lot of documentation, I still cannot > figure out all the files that need to be editted in order for gcc to output > an instruction and understand how that instruction works. Currently I have > it detecting the 'store

Re: Need help in a linking error

2008-10-01 Thread Ben Elliston
This list is for discussing GCC development, not deal with usage problems. Please try asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ben

Re: Gcov: Coverage of Child processes

2008-09-28 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 10:03 +0530, J.P. Gupta wrote: > I have a C++ server which in turn spawns the child process to do the > execution of actual task. Using Gcov, I am getting the code coverage > of the main server(listener) process but the child processes are not > getting the coverage. Is it a

Re: improving testsuite runtime

2008-09-18 Thread Ben Elliston
> Do people still use compare_tests? Talking with Janis, she mentioned that > it wasn't multilib (ie, RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=unix'{-m32,-m64}') > compatible, but that test_summary was. It's what I've been using to > compare two runs. I have used compare_tests for a long, long time. Ben P

Re: improving testsuite runtime

2008-09-18 Thread Ben Elliston
> But stability within a given revision of the testsuite I think would be > almost essential. Oh, of course :-) Ben

Re: improving testsuite runtime

2008-09-18 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 10:44 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > Ben> So, I guess my question is: what now? What do people feel would be > Ben> required to make this usable? I assume that the most pressing thing > Ben> would be to have the build system fold the various .log and .sum files > Ben> together

improving testsuite runtime

2008-09-18 Thread Ben Elliston
While waiting on testsuites this week, I finally snapped and spent some time looking at how to speed up the testsuite. I did some experiments and collected data on the normalised runtimes of each .exp test script. I sorted them in descending order and these are the top offenders:

Re: Creating own Backend: Segmentation fault in mark_jump_label_1

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> > The Error occures in mark_jump_label_1. It is called with a null pointer > > as the rtx x. > > Does nobody have an idea why or where the error occures? I really start > to became desperate. I'm sure plenty of people have an idea of why the error occurs. However, you need to be clearer in expl

Re: gcc will become the best optimizing x86 compiler

2008-07-28 Thread Ben Elliston
> Since there is no libc mailing list, I thought that the gcc list is the > place to contact the maintainers of libc. Am I on the wrong list? Or are > there no maintainers of libc? See: http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/ You want the libc-alpha list, I think. Cheers, Ben

Re: GCC trunk frozen for the tuples merge

2008-07-28 Thread Ben Elliston
> The merge is done and the trunk is open again under the usual > stage1 rules. Don't forget to update svn.html. ;-) Cheers, Ben

Re: machine cheat

2008-07-24 Thread Ben Elliston
OK, I give up. What is the point of your messages and why is it the GCC list that you've chosen to bother with them? Ben

Re: C++ Warnings on trunk

2008-07-09 Thread Ben Elliston
> In this case, I argue that this code is always compiled with a C > compiler, and should never be compiled by a C++ compiler. Therefore, > I believe it is wrong for this code to be compiled with the > -Wc++-compat warning enabled. This should be fixed somewhere in the > configure script and/or M

Re: handle preserving gcov

2008-07-06 Thread Ben Elliston
output. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: [PATCH,rs6000] split up crtsavres into individual files

2008-06-23 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 15:52 -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg00324.html > > This introduced a few warnings while building libgcc for powerpc64-linux-gnu: I see lots and lots of these myself: /home/bje/source/gcc-trunk/libgcc/shared-object.mk:26: warning

Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

2008-06-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 07:32 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > I think it would only be a few days of work for somebody familiar with > Tcl to add -j support to DejaGNU. I think that would be a very useful > contribution to gcc development. What did you have in mind, Ian? That DejaGnu would run .

Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

2008-06-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 19:13 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Has anybody ever looked at using threading capabilities of tcl directly? > Parallel DejaGNU could benefit other packages too. There is a thread > pools package (tpool.html, linked from ) but I > have no idea how

Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

2008-06-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 10:58 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > IIRC, then objects in libjava were built from lists of source files as a > means to avoid per-object overhead of libtool and some other stuff, and > to produce a bit better code[1]. Now, at least libtool compile mode > overhead should be

Re: Should we remove java from the default bootstrap languages?

2008-06-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 17:05 -0400, Diego Novillo wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 16:56, Kaveh R. GHAZI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That aside, our current policy already allows e.g. not testing java if > > your change is to a part of the compiler that can't possible affect it. > > I didn't

Re: 4.4 deprecation proposals

2008-06-15 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 18:53 +, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > m68k-*-aout* > m68k-*-coff* These would be fine with me; there has been no interest in these targets in binutils-land for some time. Ben

Re: How to post to GCC lists?

2008-06-11 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 15:09 -0500, Omar Torres wrote: > 1- I noticed that when I reply to posts, the "References" are not > preserved, which leads to messages in the same threat not to be linked > together. I am using Thunderbird as my email client. When I go to > View>Headers>All the References f

Re: Test Coverage not on whole execution (gcov)

2008-05-01 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 11:01 +0200, Fabien Baron wrote: > I'm working on a big project in C code, and I want to profile it so I > used gcc with the options -ftest-coverage and -fprofile-arcs, and gcov > to analyze the results. It works very well but on the whole project > and the whole execution !!

Re: Question about compilation details

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Elliston
The GNU linker can create one of these -- you need to refer to the ld man page for the details (it's not really related to gcc). To pass an option to the linker, pass "-Wl," to gcc. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: IRA for GCC 4.4

2008-04-27 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 21:45 +0200, J.C. Pizarro wrote: > Don't be stupid! Could you be a bit more civil, please? It's fairly unusual for people on this list to talk to each other in this way. Thanks, Ben

Re: RFC: named address space support

2008-04-17 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Joseph > > .. the embedded C proposal as of 2008-01-18 is at stage 90.92. This > > suggests that it's very close to being incorporated into the standard. > > Have I understood that correctly? > > No. All it means is that TR 18037 is being revised, not anything to do > with the standard. Th

Re: MAX_CONSTRAINT VALUE

2008-04-14 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi there Balaji, >Here is the patch for it (if a value is not provided, then the > default value of 30 is assumed). I tried to build this for x86 and arm > and they seem to work fine with no problems. Thanks for the patch. You should send your patch to gcc-patches, though, not the main GCC l

Re: RFC: named address space support

2008-04-14 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Mark > I'm not terribly familiar with this proposal. > Ben, to answer your original question, I don't think that lack of nested > address spaces is a fatal flaw, as long as the implementation otherwise > meets the spec, and as long as the implementation doesn't somehow make > it harder to a

Re: RFC: named address space support

2008-04-09 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Mark > I agree. Much to my dismay, the C and C++ committees don't seem to be > willing to work together to make sure that C remains a subset of C++. I'm afraid my patch doesn't address that. :-) > Ben, to answer your original question, I don't think that lack of nested > address spaces i

Re: RFC: named address space support

2008-04-03 Thread Ben Elliston
> Is C++ supported? I do know for that fixed point types, C++ is mostly > supported (except mangling and a couple others). I think we should not > be adding extension unless they are both supported in the C and C++ > front-ends. C++ is not supported because this proposal came from WG14 (which is

RFC: named address space support

2008-04-03 Thread Ben Elliston
The Embedded-C spec introduces a number of C language features useful for embedded development. GCC already implements fixed point arithmetic (Chapter 4) from this proposal. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1169.pdf Chapter 5 is divided into two sections: named address space su

Re: instruction scheduling PowerPC target(s)

2008-04-02 Thread Ben Elliston
> Ideally I'd like to see the source code for the scheduler but I don't > know where to find it. Can someone let me know where to get it, > please? See http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html. You can also look into the version control system via a web interface, but that isn't well suited to grep. ;-) Che

version control process improvement

2008-04-02 Thread Ben Elliston
I was speaking to Andrew Tridgell yesterday about how he uses svn with the Samba project. He mentioned an idea that we could pursue in the GCC project. As you know, Subversion keeps all branches and the trunk under different paths in the repository. Thus, it's possible to check out multiple bran

Re: please add DFP to gcc-4.3/changes.html

2008-03-31 Thread Ben Elliston
Looks good to me. Thanks, Ben

Re: [linux-cirrus] Re: wot to do with the Maverick Crunch patches?

2008-03-31 Thread Ben Elliston
> The libm patch is for uClibc. This thread is now off-topic for the GCC list. Please take up the discussion on a more appropriate list. Thanks, Ben

Re: How should _Decimal64 and _Decimal128 be aligned on stack?

2008-03-23 Thread Ben Elliston
> DFP is beyond i386 psABI. Gcc aligns _Decimal32 to 4 byte, _Decimal64 to 8 > bytes > and _Decimal128 to 16bytes. The question is what is the best alignment for > them > when passing to a functions. The original work I did for the x86-64 backend placed them at that alignment because that is the

Re: MAINTAINERS update (was: [wwwdocs] java/projects.html -- remove broken link)

2008-03-22 Thread Ben Elliston
> Anyone knows how to update the following in MAINTAINERS? > > libgcj Bryce McKinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The reason I am asking is that I just got > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host mx3.redhat.com[66.187.233.32] said: > 550 5.2.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Mailbox disabl

Re: Have proposals for 2008 gcc summit been reviewed?

2008-03-20 Thread Ben Elliston
> We submitted 2 proposals for 2008 gcc summit. We got one reply > for one proposal on Mar. 15. But we haven't heard anything on > the other. April 1 is the deadline for paper if proposal is > accepted. Today is Mar. 20. I was wondering if anyone on > gcc mailing list could help us figure out what

Re: bootstrap failure on powerpc-linux

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Elliston
> The file was forgotten in the original commit it was fixed by the > following revision: > r133278 | paolo | 2008-03-16 11:35:44 -0700 (Sun, 16 Mar 2008) | 34 lines > Changed paths: >A /trunk/libstdc++-v3/include/std/date_time I could have sworn my tree was sufficiently up to date. Nonethele

Re: An error occured when building gcc4.3.0

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 18:09 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi I am new to this list. I try compiling gcc4.3.0 on mips machine > with the follow command : This list is for discussing the development of GCC, not building and installing it. Please direct your question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks

bootstrap failure on powerpc-linux

2008-03-17 Thread Ben Elliston
Anyone else seeing this? libtool: compile: /scratch/bje/bootstrap/./gcc/xgcc -shared-libgcc -B/scratch/bje/bootstrap/./gcc -nostdinc++ -L/scratch/bje/bootstrap/powerpc-linux/libstdc++-v3/src -L/scratch/bje/bootstrap/powerpc-linux/libstdc++-v3/src/.libs -B/usr/local/powerpc-linux/bin/ -B/usr/l

Re: Official GCC git repository

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Elliston
> David Woodhouse wrote: > > To be honest, I find it weird that Subversion even exists. Precisely > > because it _is_ so close to what people were using before, as you point > > out. I've never really understood why anyone would bother to change from > > CVS to SVN -- it just seems to be part of t

Re: RTL definition

2008-03-11 Thread Ben Elliston
ted by the backend. RTL is by no means machine neutral. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: Porting gcc

2008-03-11 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:56 +1100, Schmave wrote: > Hi I would luke to know what I need to do to port gcc to a new > architecture You can start by reading the GCC internals documentation: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/ You can also look at the source code, in particular, the gcc/confi

Re: howto run cross testings with help of translators

2008-03-11 Thread Ben Elliston
> I have a developing cross compiler sparc-sun-solaris2.10-gcc on x86. > There is an available binary translator that could execute SPARC ELF > on x86 machines. so I want to run testings by runtest. It would > definitely help a lot if anyone could give clues on how to manage it. You want a SPARC s

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