[ACTIVITY] 7-11 November 2016

2016-11-14 Thread Christophe Lyon
* 1 day off == Progress == * Validation - patches & reviews (jenkins jobs, abe) - improving abe validation - abe cleanup * GCC - bug #2562 (PR78253). GCC behaviour wrt weak handling changed on arm/aarch64 between 4.9 and 5. Proposed a patch upstream but it needs more work/justificati

[ACTIVITY] 7-11 November 2016

2016-11-11 Thread Peter Smith
TCWG-901 Investigate lld as a system linker - Installed lld as the system linker on my Chromebook and attempted to build and run things to see what breaks - Only one unknown concrete problem found so far, thunks to undefined symbols with PLT entries don't work. This seems to be common in python C e

[ACTIVITY] 7-11 November 2016

2016-11-11 Thread Diana Picus
== Progress == * Rewrite llvm-projs in Python [TCWG-833] [2/10] - Investigated clitest for testing the scripts - It seems to be a bit unwieldy for our purposes, so in the end it's probably a better idea to abuse Python's unittest module even for higher level tests (they'll be in a different di