== Progress ==
* Validation
- cleanup
- reviews
- looked a bit a using docker from Jenkins
- investigating how to select toolchain components versions
depending on the gcc version
* GCC
- Sent Neon intrinsics tests patches.
- trunk timeouts: caused by the libcilkrts merge, which has a bug on
arm. Disabled cilkplus to avoid too much noise in the results.
- reported a couple of regressions/bisects
* Misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....)
- support for M-profile related queries ( multilib etc...)
== Next ==
* Validation
- cleanup
- reviews
- armv8l vs arm
- multiple gcc branches vs other components versions handling
* GCC
- trunk monitoring
- some dev if time permits
== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC (5/10)
* Linaro GCC 5.3 2016.05 snapshot
- FSF branch merge + release
* Linaro GCC 6.1 2016.05 snapshot
- Create new branch + release
o Extended validation (3/10)
* Fixed validation issues when binary tarballs are created.
o Misc (2/10)
* Various meetings and discussions.
== Plan ==
o Continue on validation/benchmarking
o Catch up with upstream work.
== Progress ==
* Add a diag handler for llc so it doesn't exit on the first error it
finds [TCWG-592] [5/10]
- Started a discussion about a new diagnostic handler for llc
- Patch accepted upstream, but broke a few things (Renato has
investigated/fixed some of them - thanks)
* Inline assembly constraints support for ARM [TCWG-560] [5/10]
- Patch in upstream review, but should be committed after the new
llc diagnostic is in place (otherwise it's difficult to test it
meaningfully)
== Plan ==
* Add a diag handler for llc so it doesn't exit on the first error it
finds [TCWG-592]
- Fix the remaining issues and get the patch committed again
* Inline assembly constraints support for ARM [TCWG-560]
- Rebase patch and try to get it reviewed
* Investigate exit-on-error on LLC [TCWG-594]
- Track the tests that need the exit-on-error flag with the new
diagnostic handler
== Progress ==
- ldr rt,= implementation transform to MOV committed upstream
[TCWG-468] [PR25722]]
-- Thanks to Renato for committing.
- Started looking at what would be needed to port lld to ARM
-- The ELF lld port looks to have a fairly small amount of
architecture specific hooks. Decided that I would learn fastest by
just trying to do an ARM only prototype port to see if I could get
hello world on linux working.
-- spent too much time trying to think about how to best implement the
group relocations for the PLT sequences then remembered that for a
quick prototype I could use larger sequences that didn't need the
relocations.
== Plan ==
- Continue working on an ARM LLD port. Will hopefully have a good idea
of what the scope of work needed is next week.
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.05 snapshot of both Linaro GCC 5 and Linaro GCC 6 source
packages.
Linaro GCC 6 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 6.1+svn236106 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08
stable[2] quarterly release.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.05/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 6.1+svn236106
Linaro GCC 5 monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn236108 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.08
maintenance release.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.05/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn236108
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/70711 Fix big-endian ARMv8.1-A builds
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/70044 -flto turns on
-fomit-frame-pointer
* Backport of [AArch32] Reduce size of arm1020e automaton
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix SIMD predicate
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix thinko in handling of
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer option
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Tests for arm_restrict_it patterns
in thumb2.md
* Backport of [Testsuite] gcc-dg: handle all return values when
shouldfail is set
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[2]. Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the
full Linaro Toolchain validation plan is executed.
== Progress ==
* 3 days off (Mon/Thu/Fri) [6/10]
* Inline assembly constraints support for ARM [TCWG-560] [3/10]
- More investigations for PR24071; found the cause of the bug,
working on a fix.
* Rework LLVM helper scripts [TCWG-571] [1/10]
- Addressed code review comments.
- The interface changes to llvm-projs and llvm-sync are now committed.
== Plan ==
* Inline assembly constraints support for ARM [TCWG-560]
- Come up with a fix for PR24071
* Rework LLVM helper scripts [TCWG-571]
- Investigate git worktree and how it could be factored into our
scripts (llvm-projs, llvm-build)
o 2 days off (4/10)
== Progress ==
o Extended validation (4/10)
* Change extended native job to use multiple scm
* Investigate validation issues when binary tarballs are created
o Linaro GCC (1/10)
* Finalized and submitted new Linaro development branch script.
o Misc (1/10)
* Various meetings and discussions.
== Plan ==
o Create Linaro GCC 6 branches
o Continue on validation and upstream work.
* 2 days off (Thu/Fri)
== Progress ==
* Validation
- restarted validations for pending backports, after the various
branches updates
- started looking at armv8l vs arm results differences
* GCC
- checked trunk regression reports
- updated AArch32 Neon intrinsics tests. Patch series almost ready
for submission
* Misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....)
== Next ==
* Validation
- cleanup
- reviews
- armv8l vs arm
* GCC
- trunk monitoring: check why builds were killed after timeout
- more intrinsics tests
== This Week ==
* LTO (7/10)
a) TCWG-548 (2/10)
- Fixed a minor bug in the patch
- Results of variable partitions with chromium: http://pastebin.com/fLD2JzgP
- Significant difference in size of last partition could probably
indicate sth wrong with
patch (all unpartitioned variables go to last partition).
b) TCWG-528 (3/10)
- Posted upstream after bootstrap+test passed on ppc64le-linux-gnu
- Addressed Richard's comments.
c) TCWG-299 (2/10)
- Firefox built on aarch64 natively (r1-a12) non LTO with gcc-5 branch
- Fails to build with trunk due to issues in firefox codebase (PR70722)
- Fails to build on armhf with following error: http://pastebin.com/9xydVtjj
* TCWG-72 (2/10)
- Rebased patch
- Addressed Ramana's comments
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== This Week ==
- LTO: benchmark section anchors patch, submit patch for
increase_alignment upstream, firefox
- TCWG-72: Test and submit upstream
* Monday off [2/10]
# Progress #
* TCWG-468, ldr rt, =immediate
Have a feature complete implementation. Passes existing regression tests.
Still need to add more tests for new functionality and see if
implementation can be tidied up a bit
* Setting up a local chromebook to run the regression-tests. Should
now be able to run test suite on ARM relatively easily.
# Plan #
* Complete TCWG-468 and send upstream for review.
* Pick something else up.
