== This week ==

* Moved the discussion about the RTL and gimple representation of strided loads/stores to the gcc@ list. Got some good feedback:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-03/msg00322.html

* Started a subdiscussion about the handling of modes:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-03/msg00342.html

This is a tricky one. I'll add more fuel to the fire next week.

* Committed two GCC patches to clean up the expand interface. Dealt with the fallout (some expected, but unfortunately some not).

* Submitted two of the patches to improve code generation for strided load/store intrinsics:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01631.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-03/msg01634.html

* Spent a lot of the week reworking the way the load/store intrinsics are handled, to fix both correctness and performance bugs. The new rtl patterns should have the right form for the vectoriser. Made what feels like good progress, but it's not complete yet.

* Sent separate R_ARM_IRELATIVE patch to glibc, after feedback from glibc-ports.

* Booked flight and hotel for Budapest summit.

* Pinged unreviewed patches.

== Next week ==

* More intrinsics improvements. I think these are necessary to get good code out of the vectoriser too.

Richard