[ACTIVITY] Week ending 24th May

Half of the week spent investigating identical code folding -icf=safe. Turns out that upstream have a proposal that is much further along so shifted focus on to doing as much as I can to help it along.

Found out that for some use cases of AArch64 PIC the small code model is inappropriate as the code segments may not be 4k aligned. Started looking into what it would take to implement the tiny code model in LLVM (supports only small and large at the moment). Built a small prototype to handle the easiest absolute addressing case, much more work needed to handle PIC and TLS.

Not a lot of tangible progress, but I think I have learned a bit more about LLVM.

Planned Absences

- Friday 25th May (holiday). - Monday 28th May (UK public holiday)