* Linaro GCC

Continued work on 64-bit shift / extend / etc. in NEON. I have posted an RFC to the gcc-patches list in the hope of getting some feedback on how best to fix this. No response yet. Hopefully some of the Linaro guys are at least looking at it ...

Merged FSF GCC 4.5 and 4.6 into the Linaro GCC release branches prior to the release next week.

Set more benchmarking work running in my ongoing investigation into generic tuning.

Did a dry run of the extra release testing Michael normally does. It failed. Michael says he's fixed it now, but I know how to do my bit, so fingers crossed.

* Other

Experienced some IT/connectivity outages within Mentor. Resolved now.