[ACTIVITY] report week ending 18 Jan

2019-01-18 Thread Peter Smith
[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

2019-01-18 Thread Peter Maydell
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