End of sick leave (will work 100% from home until my cast is removed).
== Progress ==
o Upstream GCC (2/6)
* Back to ongoing patches
o Linaro GCC release (7/6)
* Reviewed FSF branch merge into 4.8/4.9 branches
* Reviewed patches for tcwg-realease script
* Sent a first batch of backports for 5.1
Still pending due to validation infra. issues
o Misc (1/6)
* Various meetings
== Plan ==
- Continue ongoing tasks
* One day off on Fri. [2/10]
# Progress #
* TCWG-805, aarch64 native debugging multi-arch support. [5/10]
Patches (part1) are posted upstream for review, need to rewrite some
of them. The rest of them are OK and can be pushed in after 7.10
branch is created.
Watchpoint support in multi-arch debugging. Both kernel and GDB need
some fixes. Ongoing.
* Complete the document of aarch64 tracepoint work. [1/10]
* FSF GDB. [2/10]
Review intel mpx patch again, and read something on intel
mpx stuff.
# Plan #
* TCWG-805, update some patches in part 1 patch series, and continue
the multi-arch watchpoint work.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Add REG_EQUAL note for arm_emit_movpair (1/10)
- Updated and reposted
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00295.html
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-06/msg02066.html
* Factor conversion out of COND_EXPR - TCWG-849 (3/10)
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00246.html
* TACT -TCWG-851 (2/10)
- Small examples now seem to work.
- Have to do cross testing
* Git work flow for upstream patches -TCWG-848 (1/10)
- Updated based on review
* Misc (3/10)
- Looked up LLVM documents
- Looked at the TODO list Renato provided
- gcc-patches, gcc-bugs list
- Meetings
== Plan ==
- GCC Bugs
- TACT driven optimization exploration for gcc
- Linaro bug 1318
== This Week ==
* TCWG-856 (2/10)
- submitted patch to flatten cfgloop.h:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00277.html
* TCWG-777 (4/10)
- Modified pass to not generate redundant stores
- Investigating ICE caused by the pass during gcc build
- Discussions for possible approaches with Christophe and Kugan
- Reading thru documentation on optabs and ccmp patches
* Misc (4/10)
- Patch sent upstream which fixes segfault in gcc for -dx option.
- Filed upstream binutils bug for "branch range out of error"
- Conference calls
- Travel to Mumbai for US Visa OFC appointment
== Next Week ==
- Word towards committing cfgloop.h flattening patch
- Continue working on TCWG-830, TCWG-777, TCWG-847
== Progress ==
* Maintenance (CARD-1833 4/10)
- ADD/SUB with negative immediates solved by a year old
patch from ARM, sigh. On to the next bug... :(
- Working on https://llvm.org/PR20700
* Buildbots (CARD-1823 2/10)
- Moving benchmark bot to CMake, fixing deepcopy bug in
environment that broke new builds
- Restarting a few bots that crashed
* Background (4/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- A lot of code review this week...
- Blocking disrespectful web spiders in llvm.org
- Emacs now almost works as I expect
== Plan ==
* Continue PR20700
* Have a look at Polybench
* Look for some more bugs to fix
Benchmarking presentation [7/10]
* More reading
* Ran through a couple more drafts
Misc [3/10]
* Featuring a bug in my backup scripts that took ~1/10 to fix
=Plan=
Back to benchmark automation as main activity
Presentation in the background
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Support for running lldb on arm hard float abi targets [TCWG-855] [7/10]
-- Built lldb-server for armhf trusty chromebook
-- Figured out problem with lldb-server showing up i386-linux-gnu as
target triple.
-- Verfied load of arm-elf executable and breakpoint setting.
-- LLDB GDBserver dies while trying to run the target.
Miscellaneous [3/10]
-- Playing with highkey board and setup chromebook with armhf and armel
chroots on ssd.
-- Preparing document for Czech Republic visa
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Further progress and try to fix run control on armhf targets [TCWG-855]
== This week ==
* TCWG-146 - Detect smin/umin idion (1/10)
- Patch sent upstream for approval
* TCWG-140 - Transform end of loop conditions to min_expr (4/10)
- Patch and investigating validation regressions
* TCWG-833 - Exploit Wide Add operations when appropriate (4/10)
- Investigation into why vectorizer does not exploit wide adds
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
- Conference call with Kugan and Prathamesh to discuss GCC Git workflow
- Conference call with Charles and Prathamesh to discuss
autovectorization
== Next week ==
- Vacation
== Progress ==
(TCWG-831) post-indexed addressing [3/10]
. vectorization project kick-off call
. code browsing/reading to understand mailing list feedback about previous patch
(TCWG-775) NEON error messages [6/10]
. completed conversion of some ARM intrinsics to give same error
messages as AArch64 work
. reworked tests so they can be shared between AArch64, ARM.
. re-submitted previous patch with updated tests
Misc [1/10]
email, irc, gerrit reviews, connect travel booking, AArch64 qemu
big-endian experiment
== Plans ==
submit patch for work done so far on ARM NEON error messages
cortex-a53 workarounds
