[ACTIVITY] report week ending 12 Oct

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] - code review: + Xilinx Versal SoC support - investigated problem with a "suppress this warning patch" which gcc 8 didn't like. It turns out that _Pragma() in GCC is a bit of a disaster area; fortunately we only need to suppres

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 12 Oct

[TCWG-1473] Fix -fno-integrated-as and -mbig-endian (Linux Kernel Build with clang) - Needed some revision to handle linker emulation. Patch in upstream review [TCWG-1474] Fix out of range branch (CBZ) when -fimplicit-it (or -fno-integrated-as) and certain kinds of inline assembly - Committed upstr

[ACTIVITY] Weekly report for week 41

=== Work done during this past week === * TCWG-1428 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable): + continued cleaning up code and painfully rebased it on recent trunk * GNU-296 / GCC PR85434 / CVE-2018-12886: + fixed changes to routines for PIC access to use specified register + fixed 2

[ACTIVITY] 8-12 October 2018

== Progress == * FDPIC - GCC: send v3 patches, got some feedback: will need another iteration * GCC upstream validation: - reported a few regressions - dealing with some random results, again * GCC: - looking at bug report on aarch64 about misaligned accesses. Need more details to reproduce the p

[ACTIVITY] week ending 14 Oct 2018

[VIRT-214 # SVE System Registers ] Posted v3 patch set. [VIRT-281 # Extend gdbstub for SVE ] Crashed gdb. Posted patch fixing buffer overrun. It was suggested to me that qemu's gdbstub might not support enough modern bits of the remote protocol for SVE. So I spent quite a bit of time reading