[ACTIVITY] 2010-12-17

2010-12-17 Thread David Gilbert
Got SPEC2006 building on Silverbell (VExpress) and Canis1 (Orion). There are still some issues; The builds are still going (6 hours so far on a 1GHz A9 for a build and 'test' case), and the Silverbell one has hit an ICE on one of the tests that looks like 635409, and also looks like it needs some

[ACTIVITY] Dec 13 - Dec 17

2010-12-17 Thread Ulrich Weigand
== GCC == * Completed first successful bootstrap and regression test run of GCC mainline on my IGEPv2 board. * Worked on implementing fix for #617384 (.debug_line is wrong with -fpic) * Worked on backporting fix for #662324 (Pointer type information lost in 4.5 debuginfo) * Analyzed

Re: Profile guided and string routines?

2010-12-17 Thread Steven Bosscher
Mark Mitchell wrote: > > If Profile Guiding could spot that a particular callsite to say strlen() > > was often associated with strings > > of at least 'n' characters we could call a different implementation. > > I don't believe this is possible current profile-guided optimization, > but certainly

Re: Profile guided and string routines?

2010-12-17 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 16/12/10 15:06, Mark Mitchell wrote: * Have the compiler expose an API for recording information about the value of arguments to a function when profiling. For integer arguments, this might be the minimum, maximum, and average. For pointers, NULL vs. non-NULL. Etc. Presumably recording th