== Progress ==
* GCC
- FDPIC
- updated binutils ref results in CI. There are a couple of new
failures to investigate
- started GCC upgrade: rebased the FDPIC GCC pile of patches on top of
trunk.
- debugging ICE while building libgcc
* GCC upstream validation:
- helped reproduce a bugzilla on armeb
- reported random go/libgo test failures. Intel confirmed they also see
similar random results.
* Infrastructure:
- improved tcwg-buildapp script/job to actually boot arm/arm64 boards
after building a kernel with a given toolchain. (Using Lava, thanks to Remi)
* misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....)
== Next ==
* GCC/FDPIC
* GCC upstream validation
== Progress ==
o LLVM
* "unpredictable" handling:
- Bugzilla 33011: Fix committed
- Working on unpredictable cases when using PC as operand.
* Buildbots failures:
- Analyzed regressions, due to D42574
- Tested and reviewed proposed tix
* 6.0.0 release test failure:
- Investigate Bug 35996 (asan_rt_conflict_test segfaults)
- Issue due to hardcoded filename;s lenght is too short
- Validating a fix
* Got commit after approval access granted
o Misc
* Various meetings and discussions.
# Progress #
* gfortran 7.2 vs 8.0 debug information difference. [2/5]
Open GCC bug to get more attention, PR debug/84131. It is a GCC 8
regression. Jakub fixed it two hours after I opened the bug. Now,
there is no gdb.fortran test fails with truk gcc.
* GDB is confused by the line table generated by GCC with -gcolumn-info
PR 22531. [2/5]
Patches are done, to be posted for review. Investigate how to
override new/delete operator in C++.
* Resume my pending patches on removing MAX_REGISTER_SIZE.
[1/5]
Update patch series v2 per reviewers' comments.
# Plan #
* GDB 8.1 is released! Bump up GDB version in Linaro toolchain.
* PR 22531,
* Resume my pending patches on removing MAX_REGISTER_SIZE.
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Yao Qi
