linaro-toolchain January 2019

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[ACTIVITY] 14 - 18 January 2019

by Diana Picus

== Progress == * [ARM GlobalISel] Select complicated G_CONSTANT [LLVM-491] - Committed upstream * [ARM & Thumb GlobalISel] Support calls to vararg functions [LLVM-490] - This gets rid of all the fallbacks in the test-suite related to calls to printf (which is a lot) - Committed upstream * Use new version of GCC on buildbots [LLVM-515] - Fiddled with this a bit, but couldn't test much due to dockerd being broken for a couple of days - Manual installation of g++-7 from PPA works, but when trying the same steps in the dockerfile it keeps restarting; need to investigate why == Plan == * More of the same

5 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] 14 January - 18 January 2019

by Prathamesh Kulkarni

== Progress == * SVE ACLE (6/10) - Committed patch for svlsl_wide. * GCC bugs (1/10) - PR88788: Infinite loop in malloc_candidate_p_1: Fixed in r267933 * Public holiday (2/10) * Misc (1/10) - Meetings == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks.

5 years, 3 months

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release-Candidate GCC 7.4-2019.02-rc1

by Mark Murray

The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================ The Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02-rc1 Release-Candidate is now available. *Notice*: GCC 7.1 ABI change for arm*-*-* targets, and note for aarch64*-*-* targets From GCC 7.1 release notes: On ARM targets (arm*-*-*), a bug introduced in GCC 5 that affects conformance to the procedure call standard (AAPCS) has been fixed. The bug affects some C++ code where class objects are passed by value to functions and could result in incorrect or inconsistent code being generated. This is an ABI change. If the option -Wpsabi is enabled (on by default) the compiler will emit a diagnostic note for code that might be affected. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77728 GCC 5 and GCC 6 releases will continue to be affected by the ABI bug, since changing ABI in these releases is not practical. A warning enabled by -Wpsabi option was added to GCC 5 and GCC 6 toolchains to diagnose codebases that might be affected by the ABI bug. Additionally, this same bug was present in AArch64 backend in development versions of GCC 7. There was no releases of GCC with this bug present in AArch64 backend, therefore the release notes does not mention this. However, be advised that any code bases built with development versions of GCC 7 need to be recompiled with released version of GCC 7 to conform to ABI. For an explanation of GCC 7 series changes please see the following website: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html For help in porting to GCC 7 please see the following explanation: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/porting_to.html Download release-candidate packages from: (sources) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.4-2019.02-rc1/ (binaries) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.4-2019.02-rc1/ Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ Previous releases are at: http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ A description of the arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl… Host Requirements ================== Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869 Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02-rc1 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.4-2019.02-rc1/ FSF glibc 2.25 (release/2.25) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-02/msg00002.html Newlib 2.5 (newlib-2_5_0 tag) https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2016/msg01191.html GNU Binutils 2.28 (users/linaro/binutils-2_28-branch) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin… FSF GDB 8.2 (gdb-8.2-branch) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-09/msg00001.html Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at: http://git.linaro.org/toolchain NEWS for GCC 7 (as of Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.02-rc1) ================================================== * Runtest and gdbserver are no longer installed in the toolchain bin/ directory. Binary releases no longer include runtest at all, and gdbserver is a target tool; it is now shipped in the sysroot under usr/bin/. LDTS case #2211: gdbserver and runtest in GCC binary release are in the wrong place or have the wrong name * Gdbserver is no longer linked statically, because this is currently unsupported. Linaro bugzilla #3344: gdbserver broken in Linaro 2017.02 https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3344 * The Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.01 snapshot added a fix for Linaro bug 4007: "Internal compiler error with -mcpu=thunderx2t99". * The Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.09 snapshot added float and integer moves improvement for AArch64 targets. * The Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.07 snapshot added prefetching configuration improvement for AArch64 targets and laid groundwork to enabling prefetching in more cases. * Previous MinGW hosted version of Linaro GCC C preprocessor failed to convert character set used for string, character constants, etc. This is fixed in this release. Linaro bugzilla #3040 : CC1 and cc1plus cannot convert UTF-8. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3040 * Performance related backports from the following snapshots have been included: Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.05, Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.06, Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.07, Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.08, Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.09, Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.10, Linaro GCC 7.2-2018.04 and Linaro GCC 7.4-2019.01. See the following Linaro GCC snapshots: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.05/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.07/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.08/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.09/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.10/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2018.04/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.4-2019.01/ Contact Linaro =============== File bugs at http://bugs.linaro.org For Linaro member support see http://support.linaro.org For Linaro community support email linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org Mark Murray Staff Software Engineer | Arm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p: +44 1223 405082 arm.com <http://www.arm.com> IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

5 years, 3 months

[ANNOUNCE] Arm Binary A-profile Toolchain Release GCC 8.2-2019.01

by Przemyslaw Wirkus

The Arm GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture ===================================================== The Arm GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 8.2-2019.01 Release is now available. Arm is pleased to announce the first Arm-built release of the pre-built GNU cross-toolchain for the A-profile cores: GCC 8.2-2019.01. This is the same toolchain that was previously built and distributed by Linaro. For the official announcement, see: https://community.arm.com/tools/b/blog/posts/pre-built-gnu8-cross-toolchain… For more information about the GNU Arm toolchain and to download the release packages, see the Arm Developer website at: https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a For an explanation of FSF GCC 8 series changes see: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html For help in porting to GCC 8 see the following explanation: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html Download the release packages from: (sources) https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads (binaries) https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-a/downloads Previous snapshots and release-candidates for GCC 7 and earlier are at: (sources) https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/ (binaries) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ Previous releases for GCC 7 and earlier are at: http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ A description of the Arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl… Host Requirements ================== * Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86_64 or later or RHEL 6.9 x86_64: * x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 ELF bare-metal target (x86_64-aarch64-elf). * x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 ELF bare-metal, big-endian target (x86_64-aarch64_be-elf). * x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 GNU/Linux target (x86_64-aarch64-linux-gnu). * x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 GNU/Linux big-endian target (x86_64-aarch64_be-linux-gnu). * x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 bare-metal target (x86_64-arm-eabi). * x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 target with soft float (x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabi). * x86_64 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 target with hard float (x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf). * Windows 7 or later, for 32 and 64 bit OS: * i686-mingw32 hosted cross compiler for AArch32 bare-metal target (i686-mingw32-arm-eabi). * i686-mingw32 hosted cross compiler for AArch64 ELF bare-metal target (i686-mingw32-aarch64-elf). Package Versions ================= GCC 8.2.1 https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/changes.html FSF glibc 2.28 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-08/msg00000.html Newlib 3.0.0 https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2018/msg00019.html GNU Binutils 2.30 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-01/msg00010.html FSF GDB 8.1.1 https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ANNOUNCEMENT libexpat 2.2.5 https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_2_5/expat/Changes libgmp 4.3.2 libisl 0.15 libmpfr 3.1.6 libmpc 0.8.2 libiconv 1.15 Sources provided in release source tar ball. News for GCC 8 (as of GCC 8.2-2019.01) ======================================= * Fix for "gcc-arm-8.2 toolchains do not support sanitizers". https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041 * Fix for "gcc-arm-8.2-2018.08 release points to https://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/". https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4045 * Fix for "gcc8.2/AArch64: aarch64-linux-gnu-gdb: TUI mode is not supported". https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4130 * Fix for "arm gcc-8 release is missing gold linker". https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4212 * Each binary release file now contains manifest file with configuration flags for each toolchain component. For more details about Spectre V1 defense in GCC visit: https://lwn.net/Articles/759423/ Contact Arm ============ For any questions, please use the Arm Communities forums at: https://community.arm.com/tools/ Please report any bugs via the Linaro Bugzilla at: https://bugs.linaro.org/

5 years, 3 months

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 7.4 2019.01 source snapshot

by Mark Murray

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the 2019.01 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 7 source package. The GCC 7 series introduced an ABI change for ARM targets by fixing a bug (present since GCC 5, see link below) that affects conformance to the procedure call standard (AAPCS). The bug affects some C++ code where class objects are passed by value to functions and could result in incorrect or inconsistent code being generated. If the option -Wpsabi is enabled (on by default) the compiler will emit a diagnostic note for code that might be affected by this ABI change. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77728 For an explanation of the changes please see the following website: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html This snapshot1 is based on FSF GCC 7.4+svn267072 and includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from mainline GCC. The contents of this snapshot will be part of the 2019.01 stable2 periodic release. Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include: Updates to GCC 7.4+svn267072 Linaro bug 4007: “Internal compiler error with -mcpu=thunderx2t99” is fixed Feedback and Support Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to stay on top of Linaro development. o Subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC channels to stay on top of Linaro development. ** Linaro Toolchain Development mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain ** Linaro Toolchain IRC channel on irc.freenode.net at #linaro-tcwg * Bug reports should be filed in Bugzilla against GCC product: http://bugs.linaro.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GCC * Interested in commercial support? inquire at Linaro support: mailto:support@linaro.org [1]. Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only put through unit-testing and full validation is not performed. [2]. Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the full Linaro Toolchain validation plan is executed. IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

5 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] Week 02

by Yvan Roux

o Week mostly dedicated to University o LLVM * 7.0.1 final ARM and AArch64 binaries uploaded * Adding testcases to Machine Outliner prototype

5 years, 3 months

cannot build "Hello World" project

by Jie Sheng

Hi, I am new to the Linaro toolchain and has followed the tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNHIAHJ2ceY from Part 1 to Part 3. I downloaded gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-i686-mingw32_aarch64-elf.tar.xz<https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest-7/aarch64-…> and unzipped it. The toolchain is GCC7.3.1. [aarch64-elf]. I tried to build the "Hello World" project, and typed "--specs=aem-ve.specs" in all configurations just as the video did. Then I got errors shown in the attached picture. Would you please help? BTW my machine is x86 64 bit. Did I install the correct version of toolchain? Looking forward to your reply! regards, Jenny [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.6Rb47fIamx6ZsOb2OWQm3AEsDh&pid=Api] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNHIAHJ2ceY> Part 3 - Create a Project for ARMv8 Model<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNHIAHJ2ceY> www.youtube.com This video series explains how to run applications on ARMv8 model using the ARM DS-5 Development Studio.

5 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] 7 January - 11 January 2019

by Kugan Vivekanandarajah

== Progress == * SVE ACLE - Revised svmla, svmls, svmad and svmsb and committed after getting ACK - Revised again posted for review * svabs, svneg, svnot and svsqrt series * svdiv series * svmulh series * svand, svorr, and sveor series * svdot series == Plan == * Contine with sve acle

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[ACTIVITY] week ending 11 Jan

by Peter Smith

[LLVM-520] LLD Fix movt/movw relocation overflow Now committed upstream. [LLVM-521] Taking the address of an ifunc in AArch64 Prompted by a bug report and comment about pointer equivalence, spent some time looking into gold, lld and bfd behaviour to ensure that LLD is at least correct. Other Some investigation into LLD non-support of common-page-size and whether this is significant for code-size. Used in response to query about whether LLD should change default value of max-page-size. Thoughts about whether a linker must generate cantunwind .ARM.exidx sections for code sections missing a .ARM.exidx section. If C++ code with exceptions is interleaved with some assembly code without .ARM.exidx sections then the assembly code can match the address range of the C++ code that precedes it.

5 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 11 Jan

by Peter Maydell

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] - code review: + rth's pointer-auth emulation patchset + more devices for the microbit board model + support for u-boot "noload" image type + gdbstub multiprocess extension support for use when the board model has multiple asymmetric clusters (like Xilinx Zynq boards) - finished debugging patch for aarch64 host linux-user to distinguish SEGV on read from SEGV on write by looking at the ESR context struct from the kernel rather than by looking at the faulting insn; sent it. - sent patch to fix linux-user pread64/pwrite64 with NULL buffer and 0 length * VIRT-268 [QEMU support for dual-core Cortex-M Musca board] - Sent out patchset fixing heterogenous CPU support (required a lot of thought about what we might need to fix and not all that much code, in the end) - Started work on refactoring our IoTKit model to also support the extra pieces required by the SSE-200 subsystem used in the Musca thanks -- PMM

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