Progress:
* VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ sent fix for LP:1840922 (incorrect handling of branches to
M-profile exception-return magic addresses in linux-user mode)
+ some more work on requirements for JIRA KVM related issues
+ started reviewing RTH's monster decodetree convers
== Progress ==
* GCC:
- FDPIC: handling feedback.
* GCC upstream validation:
- no issue to report this week.
* Binutils:
- Non-contiguous memory regions support in the BFD linker: not started yet.
* misc:
- infra fixes / troubleshooting
- qemu-4.1 confirmed OK for GCC validations
- trying valida
- Reorganised buildbots to remove some of the duplication between v7
and v8 AArch32 to free up more v7 hardware.
- Got final code-size information and wrote my slides for Linaro Connect
- Track down an AArch64 specific LLD problem due to a recent change,
now resolved.
- Wrote worst case thunk/venee
== This Week ==
* GCC :
(i) PR83756: Addressing feedback from upstream.
(ii) PR90724: Committed to trunk.
(iii) PR91272: Started working on patch.
(iv) PR88839: Merged fix from sve-acle-branch to trunk.
* Validation
(i) Patch to separate build and test steps in tcwg_gnu.
(ii) SVE validation
== N
== Progress ==
* Investigate running benchmarks in containers [TCWG-1513]
- Discussed the noise levels with the team and we decided to
continue with this
- mcf hangs, need to investigate the cause
- WIP: cleaning up the scripts so I can send a sensible patch for review
* IR SVE reviews [LLV
Hi Maxim,
I applied this patch to ARM GCC 8.3 2019.03, and it works!
GCC 8.3 with this patch can generate code much faster than the GCC 8.3
without this patch.
But the code is still slightly slower than it generated by GCC 7.x
I'll do more test to see if there are other regressions.
Yupeng Chang
