[ACTIVITY] week ending 20 Jan 2019

[VIRT-344 # ARMv8.5-MemTag, Memory Tagging Extension ] Posted v1. [VIRT-327 # Richard's upstream QEMU work ] Posted v6 of linux-user split. Based on Laurent's feedback, I'm running LTP myself this time, at least for a few guests. r~ ___ linaro-toolc

[ACTIVITY] week ending Jan. 20 2019

Upstream Work ([VIRT-109]) == - posted {PULL 0/5} gitdm updates with final 2018 stats Message-Id: <20190114160956.7513-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org> - posted {PULL 00/21} misc testing fixes for Travis and docker Message-Id: <20190114150129.1013-1-alex.ben...@linaro.

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 18 Jan

[LLVM-521] LLD and taking the address of an ifunc Went through the possible combinations (pic, pie, non-pic, exec, shared,...) found one relocation that gcc uses that clang doesn't, hence mc and LLD don't support. Raised upstream pr. Also found that clang's code-sequence for -fpie doesn't seem to

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 18 Jan

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + some code review, and another arm pull-request (including RTH's pointer auth work) + sent patch fixing a bug in the gdbstub memory access path that meant it was always making accesses as NonSecure even if the guest CPU was curren

[ACTIVITY] 14-18 January 2019

== Progress == * FDPIC - (GNU-411) GDB: gdbserver did not start because of a qemu-user feature. Worked around it. * GCC upstream validation: - reported a few regressions - dealing with some random results, still - qemu-3.1 memory consumption. Got some clarifications from IT team about LSF reports.

[ACTIVITY] 14 - 18 January 2019

== Progress == * [ARM GlobalISel] Select complicated G_CONSTANT [LLVM-491] - Committed upstream * [ARM & Thumb GlobalISel] Support calls to vararg functions [LLVM-490] - This gets rid of all the fallbacks in the test-suite related to calls to printf (which is a lot) - Committed upstream *

[ACTIVITY] 14 January - 18 January 2019

== Progress == * SVE ACLE (6/10) - Committed patch for svlsl_wide. * GCC bugs (1/10) - PR88788: Infinite loop in malloc_candidate_p_1: Fixed in r267933 * Public holiday (2/10) * Misc (1/10) - Meetings == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks. ___ lin

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release-Candidate GCC 7.4-2019.02-rc1

The Linaro Binary Toolchain The Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02-rc1 Release-Candidate is now available. *Notice*: GCC 7.1 ABI change for arm*-*-* targets, and note for aarch64*-*-* targets From GCC 7.1 release notes: On ARM targets (arm*-*-*), a bug introduced in GCC 5 that