[ACTIVITY] 12-16 May 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Christophe Lyon
Back full time == Progress == * resumed 1:1 calls with Zhenqiang, Venkat, Charles. * GCC trunk cross-validation (2/10): - monitored results - a few improvements/cleanups * Neon-intrinsics tests (5/10) - continuing conversion - needs to add support AArch64 Neon overflow flag * Misc (meetin

[ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 May 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Omair Javaid
== Progress == * GDB arm v8 record/replay -- Bug fixing: Improve gdb.reverse testsuite results on armv8 [TCWG-451] [2/10] -- core files issue submitted bfd patch upstream [TCWG-451] -- Support for recording Data processing - Advanced SIMD and Cryptographic [TCWG-405] [TCWG-407] [3/10] -- S

[ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 May 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
== Progress == * Reload - IRA bug fix (5/10) - In thumb2 mode, we get a pattern "*ior_scc_scc" for the third argument expression by the combiner pass. - Expression Class:foo(x,0,((y==x)||(z==x))) x gets register r1 and second r2 . - The class object this pointer is passed in r0. r7 is used for s

[ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 May 2014

2014-05-18 Thread Kugan
== Progress == * TCWG-413 (8/10) sha1 performance - Looked at IRA dumps and aarch64 target hooks. - GCC now uses FP registers as register class and this results in lots of fmovs for the test-case. - Discussed in list and tried spill_class hook for aarch64. This helps sha1. - Regression tested t

[ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 May 2014

2014-05-16 Thread Will Newton
== Progress == * Various patch review and followup (2/10) * Helping diagnose an aarch64 linker crash in buildroot (1/10) * Failed attempt to update kernel on Chromebook (1/10) * Analyze and benchmark cortex-strings to find the oustanding work (1/10) * Get docker setup with cgroups to measure memor