[ACTIVITY] 22nd - 28th November

2010-11-28 Thread Andrew Stubbs
Reviewed Yao's patch for AND optimization. Some back on forth on the best way to tackle this problem. LP:663939 - thumb2 constant loading - backported my patches to GCC 4.5 - awaiting review LP:595479 - .eh_frame broken. - Discovered this problem had been fixed (with Thomas' patch) since Au

New data centre host

2010-11-28 Thread Michael Hope
Hi there. Our Versatile Express has been installed in the data centre and is available for use. See: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Hardware for the details. If you're a member of the Toolchain WG then you should already have an account. Dave is currently using this machine f

Re: GCC Optimization Brain Storming Session

2010-11-28 Thread Michael Hope
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > Hi All, > > As we discussed on Monday, I think it might be helpful to get a number of > knowledgeable people together on a call to discuss GCC optimization > opportunities. > > So, I'd like to get some idea of who would like to attend, and w

[ACTIVITY] 22nd -- 28th Nov.

2010-11-28 Thread Yao Qi
== Linaro GCC == * LP:634738: Firstly, fix this in combiner. Try the other approach (without changes to arm.md) suggested by Andrew S, to fix arm_gen_constant in some cases to generate lsl/lsr ranther loading constant. Some piece of code in arm.c was written in 1998, hard to understand with few

[ACTIVITY] Nov. 22 -- Nov. 28

2010-11-28 Thread Zach Welch
== Last Week == * Started writing libunwind support for ARM-specific unwinding, but realized that the native ARM toolchain may be causing problems. Spent time trying to isolate the issues, but haven't found the culprit yet. * Began to consider the possibility of developing an ARM-specific unwindi

[ACTIVITY] Nov.22 -- Nov.28

2010-11-28 Thread Chung-Lin Tang
== Linaro and upstream GCC == * LP #674146, dpkg segfaults during debootstrap on natty armel: analyzed and found this should be a case of PR44768, backported mainline revision 161947 to fix this. * LP #641379, bitfields poorly optimized. Discussed some with Andrew Stubbs. * GCC bugzilla PR454