[ACTIVITY] 18-22 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Christophe Lyon
== Progress == * Disable-peeling: - benchmarking locally on snowball - failed to build reference branch on cbuild, for an unknown reason * Turnoff 64bits ops in Neon: - committed upstream in 4.9 (now stage 1) - benches of backport into Linaro-4.7 OK: no significant diff, except +12.6% on s

[ACTIVITY] 18 - 22 March 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Omair Javaid
== Progress == Knocked out more GDB remote configuration failures that were failing due to timeouts. Had 1:1 with Matt for direction on GDB improvement plan. Looked around for Ireland visa process and filled out visa application. == Plan == Complete review of remote timeout based test case fai

[ACTIVITY] 18-22 March 2013

2013-03-24 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
== Progress == - Looking at TLS relocs and coming up with test cases for garbage collecting them. - Patch for missedout testcases in gc section is up streamed. Thanks to Marcus. == Plan == - Complete gc section test cases for TLS relocs. - Understand and evaluate gprof support work for Aarch64 Mi

[ACTIVITY] 18-22 March 2013

2013-03-24 Thread Kugan
== Progress == - Worked on VRP based zero/sign extension elimination at tree level - Some regression test cases are failing; investigating them == Plan == - Analyse the reason for test case failure and fix them - Extend the code to handle all the possible cases (currently implemented for subset