== Issues ==
* none.
== Progress ==
* GCC 4.9 2014.12 (2/10)
- Back on Backports.
- Around 30 revisions backported are under review.
* AArch64 libunwind/ptrace (6/10)
- Remote unwinding is not working because of a wrong ptrace invocation.
- Implement registers access with PTRACE_GETREGSET
* Misc: (2/10)
- GCC git mirror migration.
- Various meetings.
== Plan ==
* Backports
* Libunwind
== This week ==
* GCC Modularization Project (7/10)
- Flattening header files
- Submitted gimple-streamer.h, tree-streamer.h, lto-streamer.h
patches to gcc-patches list
- tree-core.h
- Several rounds of changes based on review and bootstraps
- final fifty target bootstrap in progress
- df.h
- Initial round of changes
- cfgloop.h
- Initial patch created by Parthamesh
* Bug fixing (2/10)
- Investigation of bug 539 - .LTHUNK symbols are surviving
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
- Worked with Prathamesh to bootstrap him on GCC modularization project
== Next week ==
- Submit tree-core.h patches
- Complete df.h pathces
- Review Prathamesh's patches to cfgloop.h
- Thanksgiving holiday, November 27-28
== Progress ==
* Zero/sign extension elimination with widening types (2/10)
- Addressing comments from the review
* Improve block memory operations by GCC (TCWG-142 - 3/10)
-Looked at ARM vs AArch64
* BUG #880 (3/10)
- Analysed tree dumps.
- Updated bug report with the findings.
* MISC (2/10)
- Looked at git and stg documents
== Plan ==
* Continue with Zero/sign extension.
== Planned Leave ==
* 27/11/2014 to 28/11/2014 - 2 days
* 11/12/2014 to 24/12/2014 - 10 days
== Progress ==
Environment setup, installations, board setup etc [4/10]
-- Prepared a local dev machine to work with in absence of lab.
-- Prepare panda board for gdb on android testing.
-- Figure out SSH failure issues with gdb testsuite runs.
-- Try out foundation model for android testing.
-- Getting to know CBuildv2 tried to set it up locally.
On travel to submit Hong Kong visa application [5/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, Emails etc
== Plan ==
Try android boot with foundation model some more and hope that it works.
Resume AArch64 work with lab availability.
Review and update GDB related cards.
== Progress ==
bug #403/418 [5/10]
. submitted partial patch to list for core fix for Aarch64
. needs reworking of expansion for a bunch of builtins + corresponding patterns
. discussion/review of related upstream patches
bug #868 - brief investigation [1/10]
Misc [4/10]
== Plan ==
On holiday on Friday and following Monday morning
1 day off (2/10)
== Issues ==
* none.
== Progress ==
* GCC 4.9 and 4.8 2014.11 (6/10)
- Backported ILP32 related commits in 4.9
- Validate and committed Linaro release macros in Linaro branches.
- Released 4.9 and 4.8 2014.11
* Lab move (1/10)
- Tested new validation infrastructure.
* Misc: (1/10)
- Finished libunwind task
- Various meetings.
== Plan ==
* Back on backports
cbuild2 benchmarking - TCWG-360 [5/10]
* Fixed some bugs and did some general tidying up
* Pulled SPEC2000 into my framework
* Did some test runs on local machines, looks promising
libm exercising - TCWG-558 [3/10]
* Much fiddling with one benchmark (MCB)
* Experimented, thought about methodology
Meetings/mail/etc - [2/10]
=Plan=
cbuild2 benchmarking
* Tweak eembc - it worked before, but spec forced me to change the
scripts a little
* Test in LAVA/new TCWG infrastructure when available
* Test repeatability (depends on above)
* Possibly have another go at building tools on AArch64
libm exerising
* Work through the most interesting benchmarks with a fixed method
* Hopefully reach the end and do some analysis
= Progress ==
* TSAN support for Aarch64 (4/10)
* Fix Linaro Bug 863,869 - reproduced them. Working on fixing 863 (1/10)
* Misc [3/10]
Emails, linaro and AMD status meetings.
1-1 with inline mangers (Mev, Ryan).
1-1 with christophe.
* 11/11/2014 Leave (2/10)
The task on "Debug and understand the inline differences trunk vs linaro
compiler for core mark at -O3 with LTO + PGO" is on hold now.
== Plan ==
* TSAN support for Aarch64.
* Fix Linaro Bug 863
* AMD internal event on 17/11/2014.
