[ACTIVITY] 5 - 9 August 2013

2013-08-11 Thread Omair Javaid
== Progress == * Finished gdb catch syscall support work and performed testing on ARM and x86. Trying to eliminate a couple of testsuite failures on arm. * Short week due to Eid Holidays. == Plan == * Evaluate arm catch syscall support patch recently submitted by some other developer. * Work o

[ACTIVITY] 05 - 08 August 2013

2013-08-11 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
== Progress == * Libssp support for AArch64 TCWG 23: Patch was tested for aarch64-none-elf and passed. Sent for internal review. Looking at supporting stack guard in glibc. Understanding TCB data structure and looking at ports on how they initialize the stack guard in th TCB. * TCWG-20 gprof

[ACTIVITY] Week 32

2013-08-11 Thread Zhenqiang Chen
== Issues == * No idea to fix eglibc backtrace issue. == Progress == * Commit (FSF 4.8 and trunk) the fix for lp: 1189445/1208676. * Enhance Linaro crosstool-ng: - Fix gcc respin version issue in README. - Update big-endian multiarch triplet name. * Investigate eglibc backtrace issue: - Te

[ACTIVITY] Week 32

2013-08-11 Thread Kugan
== Progress == * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Read papers/documents that list gcc optimization/problem for arm - Acovea runs fails in Chromebook; Looking into it - continuing with analysing individual results * VRP based zero/sign extension elimination - Final checks