Silverbell dchroots

2010-11-26 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
David G. requested a few packages installed on silverbell today (the quad-A9 VE porter machine we host in the datacenter). We got dchroots instead: - Forwarded message from LaMont Jones via RT - Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:02:22 + Subject: [rt.admin.canonical.com #42662] Simple packag

Re: GCC Optimization Brain Storming Session

2010-11-26 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:40:34AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > As an extension of that idea, and tying into the idea of optimizing for > size, I suspect that we (a) ought be optimizing for size automatically > in cold code, and (b) that we're probably not doing a great job of > optimizing for siz

Re: [ACTIVITY] Weekly status

2010-11-26 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 05:57:57PM +, Richard Sandiford wrote: > * More ARM testing of binutils support for STT_GNU_IFUNC. > > * Implemented the GLIBC support for STT_GNU_IFUNC. Simple ARM testcases > seem to run correctly. Coincidentally I was reading about this exact feature at http

Re: GCC Optimization Brain Storming Session

2010-11-26 Thread Mark Mitchell
On 11/26/2010 3:11 AM, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > As we discussed on Monday, I think it might be helpful to get a number > of knowledgeable people together on a call to discuss GCC optimization > opportunities. I'm not sure I qualify as knowledgeable, and my schedule is a mess, so please don't try to

[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

2010-11-26 Thread Richard Sandiford
== This week == * More ARM testing of binutils support for STT_GNU_IFUNC. * Implemented the GLIBC support for STT_GNU_IFUNC. Simple ARM testcases seem to run correctly. * Ran the GLIBC testsuite -- which includes some ifunc coverage -- but haven't analysed the results yet. * Started lookin

[ACTIVITY] weekly status

2010-11-26 Thread Ken Werner
Hi, * the ARM __sync_* glibc-ports patch was accepted upstream * posted proposal for consolidating sync primitives but stdatomic seems to be the future * used my small gcc testsuite patch to verify __sync_* support of the gcc- linaro * created: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain

[ACTIVITY] 2010-11-26

2010-11-26 Thread David Gilbert
Hand crafted a simple strchr and comparing it with Libc: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Benchmarks/InitialStrchr It's interesting it's significantly faster than libc's on A9's, but on A8's it's slower for large sizes. I've not really looked why yet; my implementation is just the

GCC Optimization Brain Storming Session

2010-11-26 Thread Andrew Stubbs
Hi All, As we discussed on Monday, I think it might be helpful to get a number of knowledgeable people together on a call to discuss GCC optimization opportunities. So, I'd like to get some idea of who would like to attend, and we'll try to find a slot we can all make. I'm on vacation next w

Re: Notes on mixing D16/D32 code

2010-11-26 Thread Dave Martin
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Michael Hope wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Dave Martin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Michael Hope >> wrote: >>> It's a bit of a newbie question, but I've been wondering if you can >>> intermix hard float VFPv3-D16 code with V