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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 4.8 2014.02 released

by Yvan Roux

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2014.02 engineering release of Linaro GCC 4.8. As announced at Linaro Connect USA 2013 Linaro GCC is moving to a pattern of quarterly stable releases, with engineering releases in the intervening months. This is the first engineering release. The next stable release will be the 2014.04 release. Linaro GCC 4.8 2014.02 is the eleventh release in the 4.8 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn207411 release, it includes performance improvements and bug fixes. Interesting changes include: * Updates to GCC 4.8.3+svn207411 * ARM-v8 crypto intrinsics support * New vectorizer cost model The source tarball is available from: http://releases.linaro.org/14.02/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.8 Downloads are available from the Linaro Releases website: http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ More information on the features and issues are available from the release page: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2014.02 Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/ Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/ Interested in commercial support? Inquire at support(a)linaro.org

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Fwd: seemingly bug in Linaro gcc 4.8

by Koen Kooi

This should match what we have in meta-linaro/dora, which is the linaro 2013.12 toolchain release. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Koen Kooi <koen(a)dominion.thruhere.net> Date: 17 January 2014 19:35 Subject: Fwd: seemingly bug in Linaro gcc 4.8 To: Koen Kooi <koen.kooi(a)linaro.org> Begin doorgestuurd bericht: > Van: Khem Raj <raj.khem(a)gmail.com> > Onderwerp: seemingly bug in Linaro gcc 4.8 > Datum: 17 januari 2014 17:56:23 CET > Aan: Koen Kooi <koen(a)dominion.thruhere.net> > > Hey Koen > > I am seeing a problem with linaro gcc-48 basically angstrom/2013.12 release > The issue is attached sample C file. When compiled and run on my ArchLinux > box which is running upstream gcc 4.8.2 it works ok > > but on beagleboard it fails. > > > to compile > > $CXX -pthread -std=gnu++11 a.cpp > > on ARCH > > kraj@leo ~ > g++ b.cpp -std=gnu++11 -pthread > kraj@leo ~ > ./a.out > 140309495478016 i: 1 > 140309503870720 i: 2 > > on Beagleboard > > root@beagleboard:~# ./std-thread > pure virtual method called > terminate called without an active exception > Aborted > > Can you pass this to right folks in Linaro and get some help in resolving it > > I havent yet trried it with OE-Core gcc which is also gcc 4.8 > > The issue is most probably ARM related as it seems to me. > > Thanks for help > > -Khem >

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Configuration specifics of prebuilt libc binaries

by Evan Carson

Hello, I'm maintaining an older release we have which uses the older toolchian binaries in gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabi-2012.03-20120326_linux. I've identified a bug in glibc we appear to be encountering and would like to port the fix back. I initially went the route of compiling the above toolchain binaries from source as described in the readme.txt but then found that the cross compiler binary build does not include the e/glibc build and these appear to be sucked in in binary form (oneiric-sysroot-r1). Are there any documents how these prebuilt libc binaries were created? Please note that I'm not asking in general how to build glibc. I've built a version with and without this bug patched to verify that it is indeed what we are hitting. I'm more hoping to get an idea of how the specific binaries mentioned above were built. Thanks in advance for any help! Evan Carson

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[Weekly] 3-7 FEB 2014

by Michael Collison

== This week == - Backported 206261 and 201263 - AArch64 support NEG in vector registers - Backported 202020 - Support SISD shifts - Backported 202259 - AARCH64, fix return types for vaddvq_s64, vaaddvq_u64 - Travel back to US on Friday, February 7th == Next week == - Submit backport for review once crypto instruction review is complete and approved - Continue backports from trunk - New backports == Future == -- Michael Collison Linaro Toolchain Working Group michael.collison(a)linaro.org

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linaro_binutils-2_24-2013_12_release tag and associated commits missing

by Gregory Fong

Hello, The binutils 2.24-2013.12 release page says that the release was built from the linaro_binutils-2_24-2013_12_release tag, but that tag doesn't seem to actually be present in the git repo at http://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils.git . Could that tag please be pushed? Thanks and regards, Gregory

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[Activity] Feb 3-9

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Cbuildv2 now builds a static gdbserver for cross linux targets. (1/10) * Fixed Cbuildv2 bugs and added feature requests from Venkat, who is bravely being our beta site. (1/10) * Got .sum files produced from Jenkins builds copied to tcwgweb. Much of this was getting everything setup to allow files to be copied securely. (TCWG-386 - 3/10) * QEMU image prep for softfp and Rasberry PI testing. (TCWG-380 - 2/10) * Meetings and misc. (3/10) - Tweaks to Jenkins support so build names the remote directory in a way tcwgweb expects. - Added more info to TCWG Build Farm wiki page. (https://wiki.linaro.org/TCWG%20build%20farm) == Plan == * Figure out how to make tcwgweb run test comparisons. * Now that SSH is setup correctly in the TCWG build farm, GCC testing tries to execute the remote tests, but hits an error in DejaGnu, which needs to be debugged and fixed. (TCWG 324) * Add Win32 installer for Canadian cross built binary releases to Cbuildv2. (TCWG-381)

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[ACTIVITY] Week 6

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * none == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (0/10) - No progress this week. o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (3/10) - Continue analysis on Cortex-a15. * LRA on AArch64: (2/10) o Start to look at PR 59222 (ICE with ILP32). * Branch merge and backports reviews. (2/10) * Continued Linaro 4.8 release performance on Cortex-a15. (2/10) * Various meetings. (1/10) * Misc: o start to prepare AArch64 toolchain status for Connect session. == Next == * Continue the on-going tasks * 4.8 2014.02 Engineering release

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[ACTIVITY] 3-7 February 2014

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * Libsanitzer for AArch64: (3/10) - QEMU patch to handle missing mmap flag accepted. - Charles was able to build GCC + run the sanitizer tests on board - cleanup patch, ready to be sent to the LLVM list for approval * Cross-validation: (1/10) - extending timeout to 5h for aarch64-linux seems to be sufficient when using qemu-aarch64 * 2014.02 release preparation: (4/10) - branch merge - backported new vectorizer cost model (cheap, dynamic, unlimited), and ran some benchmarks. - asked Kugan to check the few improvements observed when using -fvect-cost-model=unlimited - reviewed Crypto intrinsics backport from Michael Collison. Discussed the use of gerrit+jenkins with him and Rob. - Charles ran the validation of the Crypto intrinsics backport on AArch64 hardware - I cross-validated it using binutils-linaro-2.24-2013.12, to make sure we release components capable enough to interoperate. - upgrading binutils in cbuildv1/tcwg-web would help, until we can switch to jenkins+cbuildv2+gerrit * Misc (2/10): conf-calls, meetings == Next == * libsanitizer on AArch64: post patch to LLVM list * crypto intrinsics: commit patch for 2014.02 release

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[ACTIVITY] 3 - 7 Feburary 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Short week: Public holiday on Wednesday 5th Feburary 2014. [2/10] * Ran gdb testsuites for arm and x86 (native + remote) with all in progress patches applied. [1/10] * Investigated and triaged arm only failures. [2/10] * Investigated gdb.dwarf2/implptr-64bit.exp failure and submitted patch to disable it for 32-bit targets.[2/10] * Installation and configuration of new desktop machine. [1/10] * Investigation of stack unwinding failures on arm. [1/10] * Investigation of work required to implement record and replay on aarch64. [1/10] == Plan == * Setup gdb for aarch64 and try to run a demo application. * Investigate remaining arm only failures in gdb for arm and work towards closeout of CARD-321. * Travel to Islamabad to receive passport back from Chinese embassy for Macau visa.

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[ACTIVITY] February 3-9

by Maxim Kuvyrkov

== Week of February 3rd == - Various administrative bits and account setup. (6/10) - Worked my way through to getting access to LAVA board lab. Tried to reproduce performance regression on STREAM benchmark. (2/10) - Public holiday. (2/10) == Week of February 10th == - Continue account setup. Get work environment up. - Get to know the team. - Continue investigation of STREAM benchmark. -- Maxim Kuvyrkov www.linaro.org

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[ACTIVITY] Week 05 & 06

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Jan. 31 - Feb. 6: Chinese Spring Festival holidays . * Test codes to duplicate shared compares to get more conditional compares. But still get unexpected bootstrap fail on Chrome book. * Test codes to enable shrink-wrap for TARGET_APCS_FRAME. * Update patch for PR 59837. * Create a reference linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian build . == Plans == * Tuning ccmp performance * Enable shrink-wrap for TARGET_APCS_FRAME.

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[ACTIVITY] 3 -7 February 2014

by Kugan

== Progress == - Started implementing TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV (5/10) - Regression testing with the implementation; found some issues and discussed with Matt - Working on fixing them - Patch for Vectorizer generates unaligned access when -mno-unaligned-access committed upstream (2/10) - This also triggered some regression with ARMv5 and looking into them (2/10) - Set-up qemu aarch64 for gcc testing (1/10) == Plan == - Check ARMv5 regression for unaligned access - Look into vectorizer cost model/benchmarking

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Yocto Build of Toolchain with package tool rpm doesn't like the "dash" in the Release

by Gary Hannon

This is an attempt to build TI mcsdk 3.0.3.15 with bitbake tisdk-server-rootfs-image It fails trying to make rpms for the linaro toolchain. | DEBUG: Python function write_specfile finished | DEBUG: Executing shell function BUILDSPEC | error: line 4: invalid tag value("^[A-Za-z0-9+._]+$") Release: Release: r2-arago3 | error: Package has no %description: external-linaro-toolchain-2.15.armv7ahf_vfp_neon | Building target platforms: armv7ahf_vfp_neon-oe-linux-gnueabi | DEBUG: Python function do_package_rpm finished | DEBUG: Python function do_package_write_rpm finished | ERROR: Function failed: BUILDSPEC (see /home2/ghannon/keyDSP/build/mcsdk/build/arago-tmp-external-linaro-toolch ain/work/armv7ahf-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/external-linaro-toolchain-20 13.03-r2-arago3/temp/log.do_package_write_rpm.8491 for further information) ERROR: Task 40 (/home2/ghannon/keyDSP/build/mcsdk/sources/meta-linaro/recipes-devtools/ external-linaro-toolchain/external-linaro-toolchain.bb, do_package_write_rpm) failed with exit code '1' If I change Release: r2-arago3 to not have a - in the spec file then I can build the rpms manually with the same command. Is there a place where I can change that globally? Gary Hannon Sr. Software Engineer CSP Inc. 43 Manning Road Billerica, MA 01821 978-663-7598 x1509 ghannon(a)cspi.com

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[ACTIVITY] Week 6

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * IAS - Having a go at .dn/.qn aliases - Some Dwarf 2/3 discussions, kernel build flags, etc * EHABI - Tables being generated even when no EH in C - Will need some tinkering in Clang and LLVM - Huge discussion about EHABI, Dwarf unwinding and exception tables - Starting the refactory of EHABI to cope with the differences * Compiler-RT - Finding the best way to use compiler-RT with Clang (not an easy task!) * Background - Usual patch reviews & discussions - Mapping AArch64 features implemented for Connect session - Playing with the Calxedas for some benchmarks * Time - CARD-862 8/10 - Others 2/10 == Plan == * Continue with EHABI refactoring * Implement --rtlib in Clang for compiler-rt usage * Continue .dn/.qn implementation

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[ACTIVITY] 3 -7 February 2014

by Will Newton

== Progress == * 3 day week * Further work on longjmp/setjmp Systemtap probes on ARM (1/10, TCWG-378) * Research and analysis of malloc workloads for benchmarking (5/10, TCWG-160) == Issues == * None == Plan == * More work on an application level malloc benchmark framework * Resurrect glibc benchmark graphing script * newlib release * gdb 7.7 release (build an rc to troubleshoot releasing from git) -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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kernel support for cortex A8 hardware watchpoints

by Marc Kleine-Budde

Hello Ulrich, I'm on a freescale mx53 (single core, cortex a8) and trying to find a nasty problem in our $CUSTOMER's application. Working hardware watch point support in gdb should solve the problem, or at least brings us a big step forward. I stumbled over your about three years old thread[1] about the cortex a8 memory mapped debug registers problem. Do I understand correctly, that you had a8 watch point running on at least one board? Have you got any code and or pointers to get watch point support running? regards, Marc Kleine-Budde [1] http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-toolchain/2011-February/000820.html -- Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | Industrial Linux Solutions | Phone: +49-231-2826-924 | Vertretung West/Dortmund | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de |

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Linaro GNU Compiler (GCC) toolchain : for Renesas RZ (ARM Cortex-A9) + FreeRTOS (Demo Project)

by Steffen Sprung

*Hi LINARO-TEAM,* I would like start a software development on a “Renesas RZ (ARM Cortex-A9) MPU (R7S721010xxx” by using Eclipse IDE (Kepler - 4.3.1). > Global objective = Use free SW development tools I have read, that the “Linaro GCC Toolchain Release Supports Full Range of ARM Cortex-A Processors” and it’s an open source software for the ARM architecture, including the GCC toolchain. > Well – I think that is what I need. So, I have installed the Linaro Toolchain (gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_7-2013q3-20130916-win32.exe) and test the compilation of the “*Hello World ARM C Project*” for the Target Processor “cortex-A9” > So, the compilation is OK. *NOW, I would like prepare a small TEST-Project with FreeRTOS.* FreeRTOSV8.0.0_Release_Candidate_2 > I have found the “Renesas RZ (ARM Cortex-A9) RTOS Demo”: http://www.freertos.org/Renesas_RZ_Cortex-A9-RTOS.html But the two projects are provided to be built with the* IAR Embedded Workbench <http://www.iar.com/ewarm>* or the *ARM DS-5 <http://arm.com/products/tools/software-tools/ds-5/index.php> embedded development tools*. > I have seen that the DS-5 Development Studio is not for free but it use also the Linaro GNU Compiler (GCC) toolchain. So, I have tried to import the “Renesas RZ (ARM Cortex-A9) RTOS Demo” project to Eclipse, *but the import doesn’t work – and I’m not sure that the project uses the Linaro GNU GCC Compiler**.* > I think that Demo project for DS-5 use also special plugins/configuration settings from the Development Studio – so this can’t work ?!… *HELP:* *I’m new in the “Eclipse IDE / Compiler (GCC) toolchain” WORLD … * So, can you help me to give me a good direction - *what I need to do *to make running this small “Blinky-Demo for Renesas RZ (ARM Cortex-A9) with the FreeRTOS” by using the Linaro GCC Toolchain. > Or have you another small Demo project for the Linaro GCC Toolchain which uses the FreeRTOS for the Renesas RZ (ARM Cortex-A9) family? … Or you think that is not easily possible to do that for a Newcomer like me? I hope that you can help me to put me on the right road. Best regards, *Steffen SPRUNGACTIA Automotive* ================= Software Engineer ================= *ACTIA* Automotive 5 Rue Jorge SEMPRUN – BP 74215 31432 TOULOUSE Cedex 4 (FRANCE) Tél.: + 33 (0)5 61 17 68 75 Fax: +33 (0)5 61 55 42 31 Skype: steffen.sprung EMAIL: steffen.sprung(a)actia.fr ACTIA: http://www.actia.com [image: image001] *P* Avant d’imprimer ce mail, demandez-vous si ceci est nécessaire. Before printing this email, assess if it is really needed.

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systemtap test suite compilation failed: runtime/vma.c :133:21: error: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness

by Naresh Kamboju

Hi, The systemtap test suite compilation failed with below error. ARCH: arm --------------- kernel location: kernel version: 3.13.0-1-linaro-arndale systemtap location: /usr/local/bin/stap systemtap version: version 2.5/0.157, non-git sources gcc location: /usr/bin/gcc gcc version: gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu8) 4.8.1 **** failed systemtap kernel-devel smoke test: In file included from /usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/sym.c:16:0, from /usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/runtime.h:198, from /usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/runtime.h:24, from /tmp/stapvEzrD5/stap_f7468ebd0051d533d2bae853173fe5a7_892_src.c:24: /usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/vma.c: In function '_stp_vma_mmap_cb': /usr/local/share/systemtap/runtime/vma.c:133:21: error: pointer targets in initialization differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign] const char *name = (dentry != NULL) ? dentry->d_name.name : NULL; ^ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[4]: *** [/tmp/stapvEzrD5/stap_f7468ebd0051d533d2bae853173fe5a7_892_src.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/stapvEzrD5] Error 2 WARNING: kbuild exited with status: 2 Pass 4: compilation failed. [man error::pass4] **** aborting testing. Please let me know if you need more information. Best regards Naresh kamboju

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[ACTIVITY] 27 - 31 January 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Fixed remaining issues in rework of hwbreakpoint and watchpoint implementation for arm native targets. Tested and submitted patch. [TCWG-177] [8/10] * Installation and Setting up of new desktop machine. [2/10] == Plan == * Run testsuites to see current status of arm gdb. * Follow up on submitted patches. * Public holiday on Wednesday 5th February.

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[ACTIVITY] 27-31 Januery 2014

by Christophe Lyon

* Libsanitizer for AArch64: (4/10) - seems to be mostly working, but trouble with validation both using the Foundation Model and qemu-aarch64. - Some tests seems to loop forever while unwinding under qemu, but run fine under the Foundation model - Conversely the Foundation Model shows some random errors, and the corresponding tests pass under qemu - Some random timeouts with the Foundation Model, despite using ssh multiplexing - Added a small patch to qemu to hande missing mmap flag. Need to send upstream. - asked Rob to run GCC testsuite with my patch on AArch64 but it's too unstable these days * Cross-validation (2/10) - script now able to validate a GCC patch and compare results with unmodified GCC trunk - added arm-none-eabi target - using qemu-aarch64 for aarch64-none-linux-gnueabi but the validations now time out. Need investigation, but I might have to revert to no execution for this target. - identified a problem with the recent armv7-ve patch * Benchmarks: (1/10) - collecting data for 4.8 tables * Peeling: (1/10) - backported new vectorizer cost model to check it if's OK to include it in our next release * Misc (2/10): conf-calls, meetings, docs (howtos for TCWG) == Next == * libsanitizer on AArch64 * fix cross-validation on aarch64-none-linux-gnu * benchmarks: complete table * backports: chek new vectorizer cost model, monthly branch merge, review Michael's backports of Crypto intrinsics

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[ACTIVITY] Week 5

by Yvan Roux

* 2 days week (university & child care). == Issues == * none == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (0/10) - No progress this week o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (1/10) - Configured and ran benchmarks on Cortex-a15. * Looked at Linaro 4.8 release performance on Cortex-a15. (2/10) * Misc. (1/10) o Booked Hotel and flight for connect == Next == * Back on LRA and lib GMP

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[Activity] 27 Jan - 31 Jan 2014

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Investigate "PGO" for Aarch64 (3/10). Bootstap testing aarch64 with PGO for GCC.Stage 2, feedback profile in progress. Tested a small test case for -fbranch-probabilities, works same as x86_64. Working on checking the "gcda" files generated and profile runs for coremark. * Cbuild2 discussed with rob, ryan on using cbuild2 for developement. (3/10) Thanks Rob for fixing some issues and adding features that I requested. Tested some features added. Captured it as FAQ. * Reinstalled ubuntu OS on my laptop (2/10) Misc (2/10) ------------- AMD internal meetings and did some investigations == Plan == - Continue run EMBCC and coremark benchmarks with -PGO enabled. - Going on marriage vacation from 07-Feb till 06 March == Issues=== Follow up upstream libssp GCC discussions. No response yet after 2 pings :(

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[ACTIVITY] 27 - 31 January 2014

by Kugan

== Progress == * 4 Day week (Monday Public Holiday) (6/10) * Posted patches for bugs assigned https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-01/msg00332.html http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60034 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-02/msg00048.html * TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV implementation (2/10) Looked at glibc implementations of required functionality == Plan == * Finish TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV implementation * Follow up on patches if required

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[Activity] Jan 27-Feb 2

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Got binary release building working again. (2/10) * Added a node_selector to Jenkins for the new Beagle Board Blacks, and get those working for native builds. (TCWG-379, 1/10) * Fix configuration of 'build-all' project in Jenkins, now fires up cross builds for supported targets, plus native builds on Chromebooks and Beagle Board Blacks. (1/10) make networking route externally. (TCWG-380) * Meetings and Misc. (3/10) * Got TCWG build farm, all nodes offline fixed. * Wrote wiki page on the build farm. * Updated Java to 1.6 on the Beagle Board Blacks in the TCWG build farm. * Added support to specify an alternate prefix for installation. * Got QEMU and Foundation Model running on TCWG x86_64 build slaves so Jenkins can use them for native builds. (TCWG-380 - 2/10) * Got Rasberry PI softfp image running under QEMU, tried to do build. (TCWG-380 - 1/10) == Plan == * Build static gdbserver for target via Cbuildv2. * Add Win32 installer for Canadian cross built binary releases to Cbuildv2. * Get Kugan's benchmark branch running on build farm. * More Jenkins maintainance. == Potential Leave == * Still working out the huge amount of details, but strongly considering going to Mt Everest after Connect. It'd be a long and rough trip, but a once in a lifetime opportunity.

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[Weekly] 26-31 JAN 2014

by Michael Collison

== This week == - Successfully submitted crypto using git-review - Completed merge of ILP backports from trunk to Linaro 4.8 branch: 201164, 201165, 201166, 201167, 201168, 201170 and 201175 - Attended ARM architecture training on Friday == Next week == - Submit ILP backports for review using git review - New backports == Future ==

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[ACTIVITY] 27 - 31 January 2014

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Rework QEMU patch for AArch32 ARMv8 16<->64bit VCVT (2/10, TCWG-51) * Further work on longjmp/setjmp Systemtap probes on ARM (4/10, TCWG-378) * Research and analysis of malloc workloads for benchmarking (4/10, TCWG-160) == Issues == * None == Plan == * Finish testing setjmp/longjmp changes * malloc benchmarking and improvements -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] Week 5

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * EHABI - Turning EHABI on by default on non-Darwin ARM - Had to add some relocations to MCJIT - Re-enabled EH tests on test-suite - Check-all, self-hosting and test-suite bots green * Compiler-RT - Enabling RT+San libraries to compile on ARM - Changing Clang to look for the generic libraries (arm, not armv7l) * MCJIT - Remote protocol fixed, all tests passing on self-hosting bot - All tests re-enabled on ARM * Background - More IAS, Compiler RT patch reviews - Buildbot cleaning up before every build (more stable) - Cambridge LLVM Social - Rumours that LLVM can compile the kernel with the integrated assembler on ARM * Time - CARD-862 8/10 - Others 2/10 == Plan == * FOSDEM - Talking about LLVM auto-vectorization this Sunday * EHABI - ARM detected some conflicts with Dwarf stack unwinding, investigate Compiler-RT - Run test-suite, benchmarks, applications with it * IAS - Confirm the rumours about the kernel compiling clean - Pick up some remaining task to implement

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TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV

by Kugan

I had a look at the missing target hook TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV to fix the C11 memory model testcase in regressions in trunk. I looked at the x86 implementation of this target hooks and x86 has instructions (FNSTENV,FLDENV,FNSTSW,FNCLEX) for feholdexcept, feclearexcept and feupdateenv. Does ARM has something similar? Any pointers/links I can refer to. Please see the gcc internal documentation for the target hook below. — Target Hook: void TARGET_ATOMIC_ASSIGN_EXPAND_FENV (tree *hold, tree *clear, tree *update) ISO C11 requires atomic compound assignments that may raise floating-point exceptions to raise exceptions corresponding to the arithmetic operation whose result was successfully stored in a compare-and-exchange sequence. This requires code equivalent to calls to feholdexcept, feclearexcept and feupdateenv to be generated at appropriate points in the compare-and-exchange sequence. This hook should set *hold to an expression equivalent to the call to feholdexcept, *clear to an expression equivalent to the call to feclearexcept and *update to an expression equivalent to the call to feupdateenv. The three expressions are NULL_TREE on entry to the hook and may be left as NULL_TREE if no code is required in a particular place. The default implementation leaves all three expressions as NULL_TREE. The __atomic_feraiseexcept function from libatomic may be of use as part of the code generated in *update. Thanks, Kugan

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[ACTIVITY] 20 - 24 January 2014

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == - releases (3/10) * GCC 4.7 and 4.8 releases done * more cbuild2 feedback - cross-validations (2/10) * followup * adding capability to test a patch over a given revision on several targets/cpu/fpu/runtestflags - libsanitizer on AArch64 (3/10) * most tests are now functional * still some errors in the GCC testsuite, to be analyzed (there are some timeouts, too despite using SSH multiplexing to the Foundation model) - misc (2/10): conf-calls and meetings == Next == - libsanitizer on AArch64: analyze errors, try QEMU == Future == On sick leave starting Feb 11th

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[Activity] 20 Jan - 24 Jan 2014

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Libc probes support for Aarch64 (2/10). Wrote a small patch for setjmp and longjmp LIBC probe. Requested "will newton" to test them . * Investigate "PGO" for Aarch64 (3/10). Bootstap testing GCC with PGO for GCC. Stage 2, feedback profile in progress. Ran coremark on foundation model with PGO. The benchmark builds with profile-generate and runs. "gcda" files are generated and uses them to profile. Profile generated runs does not run cleanly. Cross checking if the generated profile is valid. * Resubmmited libssp machine description support in GCC (2/10). * Cbuild2 discussed with rob, ryan on SYSROOT installation while building (1/10) cross compiler for aarch64. "SYSROOT" is expected to be in /opt/linaro, but cbuild2 does not do this by default. Misc (1/10) ------------- AMD internal meetings and did some investigations == Plan == - Run EMBCC benchmarks with -PGO enabled. - Follow up upstream libssp GCC discussions.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 4

by Yvan Roux

* 4 days week (university). == Issues == * none == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (3/10) - Looking backend places (ARM and AArch64) where reload_in_progress is used to verify if lra_in_progress is needed as well: Tested lot of configurations, testsuite results analysis ongoing. o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (0/10) - No progress this week. * GMP library AArch64 port review: (4/10) o Analyzing code generated from C generic implementation vs assembly. * Misc. (1/10) o Various meetings. == Next == * Child care (chickenpox) * Still some time spend at university * Continue on LRA and lib GMP

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[ACTIVITY] 20 - 24 January 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Implemented per process hwbreakpoint and watchpoint cache for arm native targets. Also added a reference count for per thread hardware breaks. [TCWG-177] [7/10] * Travelled to Islamabad for Macau visa application. [3/10] == Plan == * Continue work on forking/vforking hardware breakpoints support for arm-native. Tweak hardware breakpoint cache and thread breaks reference count to get it in sync with linux-native. [TCWG-177]

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[ACTIVITY] 20 - 24 January 2014

by Kugan

== Misc == - Monday 27/01/2014 - Public holiday == Progress == - LP#1191909: gold and -flto always fails with an internal error on arm-linux-gnueabi* (2/10) - Reproduced it and Looking into the implementation for best fix. -c11-atomic-exec-5.c (4/10) - Issue is due to missing target hook and looking at implementing -LP#1270789: gcc 4.8: "invalid expression as operand" in aarch64 inline asm (2/10) - came-up with the patch. Still in the process of testing it. APM1 disc seems to be corrupt and that is holding this. - Benchmarking (1/10) - added -pgo for coremark - Set-up a Linux desktop (1/10) == Plan == - Continue with trunk daily regression - Fix assigned bugs

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[ACTIVITY] Week 04

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Investigate to duplicate shared compares to get more conditional compares. * Investigate to enable shrink-wrap for TARGET_APCS_FRAME. Still some ICE fails in regression tests. * Help on cbuilv2 eglibc multilib build issues. == Plans == * Tuning ccmp performance * Enable shrink-wrap for TARGET_APCS_FRAME. == Planed leaves == * Jan. 31 - Feb. 10.

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[Activity] Jan 20-26

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Improve binary releases produced by Cbuildv2. (6/10 TCWG-383) * Minor changes to source releases produced by Cbuildv2. (1/10) * Added support to Cbuild to use lsbcc for binary releases. (1/10) * Meetings. (1/10) * Started reviewing Kugan's benchmarking branch of Cbuildv2. (1/10) == Plan == * Build static gdbserver for target via Cbuildv2. * Add Win32 installer for Canadian cross built binary releases to Cbuildv2. (TCWG-381) * Once Jenkins has a node_selector for the new Beagle Board Blacks, get those working for native builds. (TCWG-379) * Get QEMU and Foundation Model running on TCWG x86_64 build slaves so Jenkins can use them for native builds. (TCWG-380)

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[ACTIVITY] 20 - 24 January 2014

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Add support for AArch32 ARMv8 16<->64bit VCVT to QEMU (2/10, TCWG-51) * Triage and report AArch64 gcc bug when building glibc with SystemTap (1/10) * Debug and submit patch for ARM libffi issue (1/10) * Add support for longjmp/setjmp Systemtap probes on ARM (4/10, TCWG-378) * Ported Python cffi package to AArch64, submitted upstream (1/10) * Fixed bug building glibc for armv4 (1/10) == Issues == * Broadband down for 3 hours on Wednesday afternoon == Plan == * Follow up QEMU patches and maybe post v2 * malloc -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] Week 4

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Compiler-RT - Changing CMake to make it compile on ARM - Reviewing long div/mod patches for ARMv4/v5/v6, testing and benchmarking * EHABI - Investigating EH code generation (landing pads, jump tables, libs) - Running test-suite EH tests, some failures * Background - Loads of patch reviews on IAS, build attributes, EHABI, compiler-rt - Planning the 3.4.1 release (the first patch-release of LLVM) * Time - CARD-862 8/10 - Others 2/10 == Plan == * Continue EHABI tests, try to turn it on by default * Continue working on RT's CMake for ARM * Prepare the FOSDEM 14 presentation

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[Weekly] 20-24 JAN 2014

by Michael Collison

== This week == - Completed merge of crypto backports from trunk to Linaro 4.8 branch: - 64-bit backports: 205092, 205383, 205384, 206114, 206115, 206117, 206118, 206149 - 32-bit backports: 206518 AND 206519 - Built and tested 32 and 64-bit compilers with crypto changes == Next week == - Submit backports for review using git review - New backports == Future ==

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[ACTIVITY] Jan 20 - 24 - 2014

by Ryan Arnold

== Progress == Deferred US Holiday (MLK day) from Monday to Tuesday * Debugged what was thought to be a cbuild2 problem but ended up being due to default enablement of multilib in gcc. (2/10) * Started working on adding mulit-lib support to cbuild2 (minimal configuration for installing headers). (8/10) [Jira card forthcoming] - Moved kernel headers installation to arch based directory in sysroot and then symlinked appropriate host include directories to common arch directories. - Figured out how to build multilib arm libraries for arm-none-linux-gnueabihf and arm-none-linux-gnueabi. == Plan == * Add cbuild2 scripting to build multilib libraries based on gcc -print-multi-lib * Figure out how to get gcc to select the correct multilib headers directory so that we don't need a merged include directory. == Issues == * None

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 4.8 and 4.7 2014.01 released

by Christophe Lyon

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of both Linaro GCC 4.7 and Linaro GCC 4.8. As announced at Linaro Connect USA 2013 Linaro GCC is moving to a pattern of quarterly stable releases, with engineering releases in the intervening months. This is the first stable release, and contains no known regressions compared to the 2013.12 release. The next release of GCC 4.7 will be the 2014.04 stable release. There will be no engineering releases of GCC 4.7 in 2013.02 or 2013.03. The next stable release of GCC 4.8 will be the 2014.04 release. Next month's release - 2013.02 - will be an engineering build. Linaro GCC 4.7 2014.01 is the twenty second release in the 4.7 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.7.4+svn206380 release, this is the ninth release after entering maintenance. Interesting changes include: * Updates to GCC 4.7.4+svn206380 Linaro GCC 4.8 2014.01 is the tenth release in the 4.8 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn206350 release, it includes performance improvements and bug fixes. Interesting changes include: * Updates to GCC 4.8.3+svn206350 * Enhanced multilib support The source tarballs are available from: http://releases.linaro.org/14.01/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.7 http://releases.linaro.org/14.01/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.8 Downloads are available from the Linaro Releases website: http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ More information on the features and issues are available from the release pages: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.7/4.7-2014.01 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2014.01 Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/ Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/ Interested in commercial support? Inquire at support(a)linaro.org

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[Activity Jan 13-19

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Got got Beagle Board blacks up, installed all necessary dependencies to build toolchains. (TCWG-379 - 1/10) * Installed QEMU and Foundation model on all TCWG x86_64 build slaves. (TCWG-380 - 1/10) * Minor bug fixes for Cbuildv2 produced source tarballs to be hopefully now 100% match with what we usually release. (2/10) * More major bug fixes and some refactoring for Cbuildv2 produced binary tarballs to match with what we usually release. (3/10) * Meetings. (1/10) == Plan == * Build static gdbserver for target via Cbuildv2. * More work on binary tarball building. * Add Win32 installer for Canadian cross built binary releases to Cbuildv2. (TCWG-381) * Once Jenkins has a node_selector for the new Beagle Board Blacks, get those working for native builds. (TCWG-379) * Get QEMU and Foundation Model running on TCWG x86_64 build slaves so Jenkins can use them for native builds. (TCWG-380) == Issues == * I got invited to Mt Everest last week... :-)

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[ACTIVITY] Week 3

by Yvan Roux

* 4 days week (still some times spent at university). == Issues == * none == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (3/10) - Most of the issues fixed or about to be fixed by Vladimir : * iWMMXT issue and Thumb1 udivmoddi4 : fixed. * Thumb1 code size issue : partial patch proposed. - Looking backend places (ARM and AArch64) where reload_in_progress is used to verify if lra_in_progress is needed as well. Validation ongoing. o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (0/10) - No progress this week. * Loop specialisation patch review: (1/10) o Sent feedback to Samsung. * 2014.01 release: (1/10) o Branch merge review * [Bug 1258013] Re: Cannot build arm64 kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y (1/10) o Issue due to a wrong .align directive in an assembly source file which is already fixed upstream. * GMP library sAArch64 port review: (1/10) o Started to review Anil work. * Misc. (1/10) o Various meetings. == Next == * Still some time spend at university * Continue on LRA and lib GMP.

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[ACTIVITY] 13-17 January 2013

by Christophe Lyon

- 2014.01 releases: (2/10) * 4.7 ready, 4.8 needed a short daily to include our multilib patch to support our binary releases. * retried cbuildv2 and sent feedback. Should be mostly OK by now. - cross-validations: (2/10) * followup-up, bugzilla * thinking about short term Neon intrinsics testsuite use without dejagnu - libsanitizer (2/10) * resumed work for aarch64 - misc (2/10): conf-call and meetings - internal support (2/10) * issue: boards used for benchmarking have been off for several weeks. Pending jobs disappeared from the list, but I got no log.

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[ACTIVITY] 13 - 17 January 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Implement fork over HW breaks support for arm native targets. [TCWG-177] [6/10] * ARM Process Record: - All patches accepted and upstream. - Spent time making changes to VFP, SIMD etc patch. [2/10] - Configuration and Git ssh setup for gdb commit rights . [1/10] * Submitted a new fix and worked with community for the fix. [1/10] == Plan == * Continue to work on fork over HW breaks support for arm native targets. [TCWG-177] * Patch updates and submission to all in progress upstream submissions. * Travel to Islamabad for Macau visa application.

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[Activity] 13 Jan - 17 Jan 2014

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Libc probes support for Aarch64. Testing the patch for "libc" probes support to "__longjump". Native compiling in openemebedded. Obtained a Linaro open embedded image with system tap enabled. Getting Assembler Error during "malloc" module linking in "glibc" configured with --enable-systemtap. In libc_mallopt invalid "asm", invalid expression as operand for LIBC_PROBE call. Cross compiling. Tried copying header files from system tap source to SYSROOT for cross compiling glibc. The cross compiled GCC does not recognize the header files. * Investigate "PGO" for Aarch64. Started bootstap testing GCC with PGO for GCC. Stage 1 completed. stage profile in progress. == Plan == - Run EMBCC benchmark with -PGO enabled. - Work on "glibc" probe. == Issues == Waiting for feedback on "libssp" machine descriptions changes. Misc ------ 14-Jan-2014 Local holiday.

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[ACTIVITY] 13 - 17 January 2014

by Kugan

== Progress == - TLS GOT binutils patch and gcc fix for aarch64_build_constant are committed upstream. (1/10) - TCWG-360 (closed) (1/10) - TCWG-349 (closed) (4/10) - set-up trunk daily regression (4/10) - Resolved issues running address sanitiser with qemu - started running daily cross regression testing with qemu and native regression testing on chromebook. - Started analysing failures. == Plan == - Continue with trunk daily regression - Look at pending optimization cards

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[ACTIVITY] Week 03

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * Test Linaro cbuildv2. - Write a reference script to support windows installer in cbuildv2. - Do some basic validation work against the binaries built from cbuildv2. * Reproduce and work out a patch for "ICE when building linux-linaro-tracking" (lp:1268893, PR59837) . * Test to merge Linaro local armv4t multilib patch to Linaro 4.8. * Investigate CCMP chance by taking a Bool_ var as var != 0. == Plans == * cbuildv2 validation * Tuning ccmp performance == Planed leaves == * Jan. 31 - Feb. 9.

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[Weekly] 13-17 Jan 2014

by Michael Collison

== This week == - Completed merge of crypto backports 206128, 206130, 206131, 206132 and 206149 from trunk to Linaro 4.8 branch - Out sick Friday == Next week == - Build and test crypto backports - Begin merging aarch64 crypto backport to Linaro 4.8 branch == Future ==

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[ACTIVITY] Week 3 (Jan 13-17 2014)

by Ryan Arnold

== Progress == * Cbuildv2 fix for *_release() functions which were changing out of the build directory but then not changing back to the builddir, which caused problems with paths relative to the builddir. (1/10) * TCWG-340 Enable Glibc remote testsuite integration - (7/10) - Working with upstream community on scoping and designing remote testsuite integration. - Setting up arm chroot environment on chromebook with documentation on how to make this reproduceable. * TCWG-352 AArch64 clone is missing some CFI markup - (2/10) - Setup aarch64 environment for testing and built static clone tests to test the patch. == Plan == * Start implementing (code) for glibc remote testsuite integration. == Issues == None

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[ACTIVITY] Week 3

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Buildbots - Odroid U2 died after a few days on USB stick, too. (I guess we're stuck with Chromebooks) - Upgrading chromebooks (to Saucy) due to a new GCC/libstdc++ 4.7+ restriction - Shuffling chromebooks, we now have three buildbots: - llvm-chrome-01: quick-build+check - llvm-chrome-02: self-host+check - llvm-chrome-03: test-suite * MCJIT Remote - Re-factored the communication protocol of MCJIT for remote processes - Still seeing one random failure on ARM, investigating * Compiler-rt - Investigating how to get it compiling all libraries and sanitizers on ARM * Background - Patch reviews, especially IAS and EH * Time - CARD-862 8/10 - Others 2/10 == Plan == * Continue MCJIT and Compiler-RT investigations * Continue reviewing IAS and EH patches * Try to run the EH tests on the test-suite with the current changes

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[ACTIVITY] 13 - 17 January 2014

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Add support for AArch32 ARMv8 VRINT to QEMU (4/10, TCWG-50) * Add support for AArch32 ARMv8 VCVT to QEMU (4/10, TCWG-49) * Add support for AArch32 ARMv8 16<->64bit VCVT to QEMU (1/10, TCWG-51) * Fixed gas ARM VCVT encoding bug (1/10) == Issues == * None == Plan == * Complete outstanding QEMU work * ARM setjmp/longjmp SystemTap probes * malloc -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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ICE when building linux-linaro-tracking

by Koen Kooi

Hi, I've been playing with linux-linaro-tracking and the 2013.12 (and 2013.10, 2013.11) toolchain release and when turning on the NEON in kernel option I get: CC lib/raid6/neon4.o lib/raid6/neon4.c: In function 'raid6_neon4_gen_syndrome_real': lib/raid6/neon4.c:113:1: internal compiler error: in dwarf2out_frame_debug_adjust_cfa, at dwarf2cfi.c:1078 } ^ Use the attached .txt as .config and do 'make zImage' to replicate the problem. You will probably need to attached patch as well since some of the linaro patches break namespace support :( regards, -- Koen Kooi Builds and Baselines | Release Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

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[ACTIVITY] Week 2

by Yvan Roux

* Two days week (due to compilation courses given at university). == Issues == * none == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (1/10) - iWMMXT issue : back on the issue. - Thumb1 issues : looked at bugzilla's reports. o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (0/10) - No progress this week. * Loop specialization patch review: (1/10) o Back on the task. * [Bug 1258013] Re: Cannot build arm64 kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y (1/10) o Tried to reproduce the issue. * Misc. (1/10) o Catching up with email, etc o Meeting == Next == * Still some time spend at university * Continue the ongoing tasks. * Branch merge reviews.

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[ACTIVITY] 6 - 10 January 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * ARM Process Record: - Follow up on patches, almost all patches accepted. [0.5/10] - Got GDB committ rights and set up git for pushing patches. [0.5/10] * Spent time to read through fortran functions prologue to find a new fix for TCWG-267. [1/10] * Initial investigation of handling breakpoint over fork [TCWG-177] [1/10] * Getting documentation ready for Macau visa application [2/10] == Plan == * Update and send patches where required and committ all approved patches. * Work on breakpoints issues [TCWG-177] and reverse stepping through solib issue [TCWG-315] * Apply for Macau visa, given all documents get ready.

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[Activity] 06 Jan - 10 Jan 2014

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Libc probes support for Aarch64. Posted patch for "libc" probes support to "__longjump". Worked on review comments from Maintainers. Upstream discussions in progress. Working on testing "glibc" by using --enable-systemtap. * Experimented with "Cbuildv2" native building. == Plan == - Continue Cbuildv2. - Investigate "PGO" for Aarch64. - Work on "glibc" probe. == Issues == Waiting for feedback on "libssp" machine descriptions changes. misc === 14-Jan-2014 leave.

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[ACTIVITY] 6-10 January 2014

by Kugan

== Progress == - Zero/sign extension elimination - experimented and discussed upstream. Still no confirmation (2/10) - Bug investigation LP1267122 and LP1263576 (6/10) - CBUILD2 Benchmarking (2/10) - More testing on chrome book == Plan == - Finish CBUILD2 Benchmarking - set-up trunk daily regression

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[ACTIVITY] Week 2

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * Try cbuildv2 and compare the binaries with current releases. * Identify MULTIARCH_DIRNAME in trunk breaks aarch64 multiarch build. * Branch-cost tune for Cortex-M. == Plans == * Verify binaries built from cbuildv2 == Planed leaves == * Jan. 30 - Feb. 10.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 1 - Jan 6 - 10

by Ryan Arnold

== Progress == * Draft wiki page (under ACL--let me know if you want to see) for instructions for setting up chroots on chromebooks for glibc testing: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/~ryan.arnold@linaro.org/Configuring+… * Investigated expanding remote testing possibilities in glibc. * RFC email to libc-alpha discussing proposal for glibc host testsuite in chroots: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00222.html == Issues == * Shortened week (3-days) because of unplanned school closures on Monday and Tuesday due to freezing temperatures, during which I had to watch my kids. == Plan == * Start code scaffolding for glibc host testsuite in chroot. * Start cbuild2 scaffolding for building remote chroots for glibc testing. * Add glibc multi-lib builds and IFUNC system libraries. * Work on cbuild2 support for local tar files.

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[Weekly] 06-10 JAN 2014

by Michael Collison

== This week == - Completed local backportS of 201164, 201165, 201166, 201167, 201168. == Next week == - Complete backport of 201175 - Submit merge requestS using git == Future ==

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[ACTIVITY] Week 1

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Two day week * Catching up on email etc. after break (0.5/10) * Investigate setjmp/longjmp SystemTap probe support in ARM glibc (1/10, TCWG-378) * Investigate toolchain bug reports for ARM and AArch64 (0.5/10) == Issues == * None == Plan == * Resume QEMU ARMv8 AArch32 work * Hopefully push glibc ARM pointer encryption fix for 2.19 -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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[ACTIVITY] 6-10 January 2014

by Christophe Lyon

- 2013.12 releases (1/10) * Sent announcements for 4.7 and 4.8 releases. - 2014.01 releases (2/10) * Created 4.7 and 4.8 branch merge requests (had handle some conflicts in 4.8) * Looked at backporting the crypto intrinsics support into 4.8, but there are dependencies with several other patches we haven't backported yet. - cross validation (4/10) * Restarted them since I had to stop them during the holidays. Still catching up with the backlog, should be OK during the week-end. * Analyzed and reported several regressions or new tests failing in some configurations. - Neon intrinsics tests (1/10) * Looked at Rob's neon-intrinsics branch and sent him some feedback. - misc (2/10): conf-calls and meetings. == Next == - 2014.01 releases - cross-validation: look at results and report regressions if any - resume libsanitizer work for AArch64

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[ACTIVITY] Week 01

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Release 3.4 went out * Buildbots - Using powered USB hub for the external harddrive, but all boards fail one time or another... - Maybe it's the hard-drive type (mobile, power-saving), reverting to USB sticks for now - Leaving an odroid U2 running on USB stick for a week, used to work... - C++11 features will need GCC 4.7+, looking for an easy way to upgrade the Chromebooks * MCJIT - Finished work on remote MCJIT to re-enable the failing tests - http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2527 * Pragma Vectorize - New discussions hint that my parser patch is moot, for now - Agreement is to use C++11 attributes for now, and add pragmas later - I can't continue implementing them, though... * Background - Huge number of patch reviews during holidays & this week - Good progress on new features for the IAS - More progress on EHABI, including IAS support * Time - CARD-862 8/10 - Others 2/10 == Plan == * Continue reviewing IAS features, maybe implement some * Work out how to create a libcxx bot * re-introduce llvm-chrome-01 as second self-host * Migrate all buildbots to GCC 4.7+ * Check out EHABI tests and assess progress

11 years, 11 months

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miscompilation of unsigned comparison on aarch64

by Michael Hudson-Doyle

Hi, I filed this on bugzilla: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59744 but I thought I'd mention it here too. This slightly strangely written program (it's distilled down from frame_offset_overflow in the gcc source itself) should print "bigger" if the first argument is bigger than 10 (or negative, but let's ignore that please): #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int a[2] = { 10, 20 }; int is_bigger (long offset, int index) { unsigned long size = -offset; if (size > a[index]) { printf("bigger\n"); return 1; } return 0; } int main (int argc, char** argv) { long v; v = atol(argv[1]); is_bigger(-v, 0); return 0; } When compiled at -O1 or above (and with inlining disabled at -O2 and above), though, it bungles the 0 case: (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ gcc-4.9 -O3 test.c -o test -fno-inline -Wall (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ ./test 1 (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ ./test 11 bigger (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ ./test 0 bigger (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ gcc-4.9 -O0 test.c -o test -Wall (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ ./test 1 (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ ./test 11 bigger (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ ./test 0 (t-doko)mwhudson@arm64:~$ What's going on? Here's the disassembly of is_bigger (at O3): 0000000000400608 <is_bigger>: 400608: b0000082 adrp x2, 411000 <_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_+0x28> 40060c: 91010042 add x2, x2, #0x40 400610: a9bf7bfd stp x29, x30, [sp,#-16]! 400614: 52800003 mov w3, #0x0 // #0 400618: 910003fd mov x29, sp 40061c: b8a1d841 ldrsw x1, [x2,w1,sxtw #2] 400620: ab00003f cmn x1, x0 400624: 540000a2 b.cs 400638 <is_bigger+0x30> 400628: 90000000 adrp x0, 400000 <_init-0x3f8> 40062c: 911b6000 add x0, x0, #0x6d8 400630: 97ffff90 bl 400470 <puts@plt> 400634: 52800023 mov w3, #0x1 // #1 400638: 2a0303e0 mov w0, w3 40063c: a8c17bfd ldp x29, x30, [sp],#16 400640: d65f03c0 ret Basically it seems that the condition "-offset > val" is being compiled as "val + offset does not overflow", which is not valid for offset == 0. This seems to me to be the underlying cause behind https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1263806 ("gccgo fails to compile tomb.go on arm64"). Cheers, mwh

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help on linaro android toolchain 13.12 (arm-v7)

by Sandeepa Prabhu

Hi, We are trying to build android Kitkat (for our own platform) using linaro android toolchain version 4.7.4 from 13.12 release. We are observing following while compiling some shared libraries: ~arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.7.4/real-ld: warning: shared library text segment is not shareable ~arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/bin/../libexec/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.7.4/real-ld: error: treating warnings as errors We tried to suppress thisn warning by setting LDFLAGS but the tool-chain does not seem to identify this flag: LOCAL_LDFLAGS := --no-warn-shared-textrel We need some help to fix this, so posting on both android and tool-chain mailing lists. Thanks, Sandeepa

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LLVM and GCC working together

by Renato Golin

Hi folks, As most of you are on the GNU side of the fence, I believe this is the right crowd to first ask this question, before attempting a wider audience. For a while, Clang/LLVM wasn't in any position to add unheard-of features, and most of what we needed would be covered by something GCC already did. But in the last year or so, there were a number of "features" we'd like to add that aren't present in GCC (like pragmas, attributes, asm directives) which is neither part of the language specifications, nor something that another standard (like OpenMP or ABIs) already support. As a concrete example, we're trying to come up with some vectorisation annotation and there is a heated discussion on whether it should be C++11 attributes, pragmas, or changing the __attribute__ semantics to allow it to be used in lexical blocks, not just declarations. Any of that, but most strikingly the latter, would add Clang-specific behaviour which GCC probably won't implement, and we all know how that feels. In this discussion, and others regarding ARM-specific behaviour (notably about assembly directives), I have used the same argument twice already, so it's time to ask the GCC crowd once and for all: For non-standard, domain or platform specific changes, do we want to have a joint task force, GCC+LLVM, to homogenize the efforts in extending the languages we support in the same say, so that we can call it the "OSS Compiler Extensions" (or whatever) instead of two separate GCC-extensions and Clang-extensions? Historically, GCC has *a lot* more extensions, so this new standard would probably be 99% GCC, but the goals of such a task force for the future would be to: 1. Make sure all OSS compilers implement the same extensions, when they so chose. So, extensions to the language should go in a shared forum, and not to Clang/GCC lists. 2. Document each extension and record all discussions (threads, bugs, etc), so that new compilers can have an easier time implementing them. 3. Reason about the existing hazardous or redundant extensions, and mark them for deprecation. This is also pertinent to the Linux kernel, which is driving its own task force to compiler the kernel with Clang, so that it can rid itself from outdated GNU extensions that lingered for far too long in their code. I appreciate the size of this proposal, the political issues and the endless discussions, but this is the same on every standard committee, and I'd rather have something than nothing at all. Perhaps, as it happened before, some of these changes could be more easily persuaded to move back to the language standards and platforms ABIs, than if it's just implemented, undocumented, by one compiler. So, ignoring just for a moment the political side of it, would that make technical sense for the GCC community as well? cheers, --renato

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Stable GCC

by Renato Golin

Folks, Since LLVM is moving on to C++11, I need to replace our buildbot GCCs with 4.7+ (the new minimum requirement), but I'd like to use whatever is the most stable and modern GCC version for native compilation. I could get the latest and greatest on our repository, but I know how compilers are written, and pardon me if I don't trust new releases... ;) Does any one have an opinion on which is the most stable, preferably 4.8, release of native ARMv7 GCC binaries? For some odd reason, we just release cross-compilers, so, in that case, where would I look for a native GCC, other than in my Ubuntu/Arch repositories? ARM? CodeSourcery? I *really* don't want to compile it myself... My lack of available fast ARM hardware is disturbing, and I don't want to spend a week cross-compiling GCC. cheers, --renato

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro GCC 4.8 and 4.7 2013.12 released

by Christophe Lyon

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of both Linaro GCC 4.8 and Linaro GCC 4.7. Linaro GCC 4.7 2013.12 is the twentiy first release in the 4.7 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.7.4+svn205768 release, this is the eighth release after entering maintenance. Interesting changes include: * Updates to GCC 4.7.4+svn205768 * Fixed MULTILIB_DEFAULTS in linux-eabi case. Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.12 is the ninth release in the 4.8 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn205577 release, it includes performance improvements and bug fixes. Interesting changes include: * Updates to GCC 4.8.3+svn205577 * AArch64: enable build of libjava and libatomic. Change frame growth direction, thus enabling libssp build. The source tarballs are available from: http://releases.linaro.org/13.12/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.7 http://releases.linaro.org/13.12/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.8 Downloads are available from the Linaro Releases website: http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ More information on the features and issues are available from the release pages: https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.7/4.7-2013.12 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2013.12 Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/ Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/ Interested in commercial support? Inquire at support(a)linaro.org

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[Activity] 30 DEC-03 Jan 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Pointer mangling Aarch64 glibc. Worked on review comments from Maintainer. Rebased and posted the patch. Upstream completed and closed the card. https://cards.linaro.org/browse/TCWG-373 * Experimented with Cbuildv2 native building. == Plan == - Continue Cbuildv2. - Investigate PGO for Aarch64. == Issues == Waiting for feedback on libssp machine descriptions changes.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 01

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * One day off (Jan. 1) * Do some basic validations for 2013.12 toolchain binaries release. * R/M Mac toolchain validation * Branch-cost related tuning for Cortex-M. == Plans == * Continue on branch-cost related tuning.

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[ACTIVITY] 30 December 2013 - 3rd January 2014

by Kugan

== Progress == - Short week (4 Days) - TCWG-291 zero/sign extension elimination 4/10 - made re-factoring and ran the regression - benchmarking in progress - TCWG-134 divmod 4/10 - converted into latest pass structure and re-based the patch - found some regression failures and fixed them - regression testing ongoing == Plan == - post divmod and vrp patches

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[ACTIVITY] 30 December 2013 - 3rd January 2014

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * ARM Process Record: [TCWG-336] [TCWG-338] [TCWG-339][TCWG-317] [TCWG-315] - Configured and learnt to use git format-patch and git send-email. [1/10] - Incorporated and tested changes suggested by maintainers in previous arm process record patches. [2/10] - Created a new patch series indicating bug fixes separate from features. [1/10] - Submitted version 2 of arm process record replay improvements. * Debugging of stepping over and single stepping heurisitic code. [TCWG-315] [4/10] * Review of open JIRA cards and pending patches [1/10] * Time off for setting up new office space. [0.5/10] * Macau visa information gathering and document preparation [0.5/10] == Plan == * Reverse engineering stepping code heuristics in gdb to find a fix for reverse debugging of solib code on arm. [TCWG-315] * Find and submit a new fix for TCWG-267. * New office space setup and Macau visa application, will be away from my desk for few hours.

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2013.12 released

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

Just before having to rename it to 2014, the Linaro Toolchain and Builds and Baselines Working Groups are pleased to announce the 2013.12 release of the Linaro Toolchain Binaries, a pre-built version of Linaro GCC and Linaro GDB that runs on generic Linux or Windows and targets the glibc Linaro Evaluation Build. Uses include: * Cross compiling ARM applications from your laptop * Remote debugging * Build the Linux kernel for your board What's included: * Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.12 * Linaro GDB 7.6.1 2013.12 * Linaro Binutils 2.24 2013.12 * A statically linked gdbserver * A system root * Manuals under share/doc/ The system root contains the basic header files and libraries to link your programs against. Interesting changes include: * Binutils has been updated to 2.24, bringing many improvements * Various bugs have been fixed The Linux version is supported on Ubuntu 10.04.3 and 12.04, Debian 6.0.2, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.7 and later, and should run on any Linux Standard Base 3.0 compatible distribution. Please see the README about running on x86_64 hosts. The Windows version is supported on Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Vista Business SP2, and Windows 7 Pro SP1. The binaries and build scripts are available from: https://releases.linaro.org/13.10/components/toolchain/binaries/ Need help? Ask a question on https://ask.linaro.org/ Already on Launchpad? Submit a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries On IRC? See us on #linaro on Freenode. Other ways that you can contact us or get involved are listed at https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved.

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[Activity] 23-27 DEC 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Pointer mangling Aarch64 glibc. Posted patch on pointer mangling. Worked on review comments from maintainer. Tested on V8 foundation model. == Plan == - Continue working on review comments for Pointer Guard support in Aarch64 glibc, - Continue Cbuildv2. - Investigate PGO for Aarch64. == Issues == Waiting for feedback on libssp machine descriptions changes.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 52

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * One day off (Dec. 27). * Prepare toolchain binaries release - Backport the newlib patches for ftruncate() and truncate() stubs - Test and update binutils version to linaro-2.24-2013.12 and workaround gold compile fail issue. * Retest -fira-loop-pressure performance on cortex-m4. But get regression in several suites of eembc-v1. Will re-investigate it when aarch64 performance test is ready since it is enabled in ia64 and rs6000, and the comment says: /* Numerous experiment shows that IRA based loop pressure calculation works better for RTL loop invariant motion on targets with enough (>= 32) registers. It is an expensive optimization. So it is on only for peak performance. */ * R/M toolchain related work. == Plan == * Linaro toolchain binaries 2013.12 release

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[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 December 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == - Short week (25th and 26th public holidays) - Integrate benchmarking into Cbuildv2 (TCWG-360 4/10) - First cut implementation complete and ready for review - Binutils Bug 16340 (2/10) - Posted modified patch after regression testing and analysing the results == Plan == - ping modified zero/sign extension patch with benchmarking - set-up trunk daily regression testing - start TCWG-238

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[ACTIVITY] 23 - 27 December 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * ARM Process Record made the changes pointed out in maintainers comments. [3/10] [TCWG-336] [TCWG-338] [TCWG-339] - Put the new bug fixes patches on hold as they can be sent in the same series.[TCWG-317] [TCWG-315] * Time off for setting up new office space. [4/10] - Found a good room for office in a central location, need to get internet and other stuff working before shifting. I will get started on that once I get the possession of the space next week. * Time off for Macau visa information [1/10] * 25th December Public Holiday [2/10] == Plan == * ARM Process Record: - Create new patches as per maintainers suggestions, incorporating bug fixes as separate patches in the list. - Test and send all patches upstream. * New office space setup, will be away from my desk for few hours.

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bad code generation on aarch64 in aarch64_output_mi_thunk

by Matthias Klose

Hi, seen in a segfault running the tests in the coinor-osi package, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1263576, both in saucy and trusty, version 0.106.4 and 0.106.5. Version 0.103 doesn't show the issue. both the 4.7 and 4.8 linaro branches show this behaviour, and trunk 20131121 (didn't build a newer one yet). William Grant tracked that down to a bug with very negative vcall_offsets in aarch64 multiple inheritance thunks. The example below has two consecutive thunks, with the second adding 263 instead of subtracting 264. aarch64_build_constant seems to not handle negative integers. He tried a quick gcc patch to avoid using aarch64_build_constant, and the coinor-osi tests succeed. 0000000000401ca4 <_ZTv0_n256_N1C2adEv>: 401ca4: f9400010 ldr x16, [x0] 401ca8: f8500211 ldr x17, [x16,#-256] 401cac: 8b110000 add x0, x0, x17 401cb0: 17fffff9 b 401c94 <_ZN1C2adEv> [...] 0000000000401cc4 <_ZTv0_n264_N1C2aeEv>: 401cc4: f9400010 ldr x16, [x0] 401cc8: d28020f1 mov x17, #0x107 // #263 401ccc: f8716a11 ldr x17, [x16,x17] 401cd0: 8b110000 add x0, x0, x17 401cd4: 17fffff8 b 401cb4 <_ZN1C2aeEv> Any chance for a quick 2013 review? Thanks, Matthias --- a/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c +++ b/gcc/config/aarch64/aarch64.c @@ -2540,8 +2540,8 @@ addr = plus_constant (Pmode, temp0, vcall_offset); else { - aarch64_build_constant (IP1_REGNUM, vcall_offset); - addr = gen_rtx_PLUS (Pmode, temp0, temp1); + aarch64_add_constant (IP0_REGNUM, IP1_REGNUM, vcall_offset); + addr = temp0; } aarch64_emit_move (temp1, gen_rtx_MEM (Pmode,addr));

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[Activity] Dec 16-26

by Rob Savoye

== Progress == * Lots of little changes to the Jenkins configure files and Cbuildv2 so Jenkins can do a builds in a 32 bit chroot. (4/10) * Misc - meetings and misc tasks (2/10). * Helped with binutils & GCC releases. 4/10) * New Arndale Octa arrived. == Plan == * Get back to adding the neon intrinsics tests to the GCC testsuite. * More Jenkins hacking for 32bit chroot builds. * More hacking on binary release automation. * Review Kugan's benchmarking support in Cbuildv2. == Issues == * Loosing ssh access to many of the machines we work on is a problem... == Leave == * A bit complicated. On the road till Jan 13, offline some, mixed with some work days depending on the weather. Should have email access most nights.

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Binutils fails to build

by Venkataramanan Kumar

Hi All, I am getting a weird error while building binutils from http://cbuild.validation.linaro.org/snapshots/Latest/binutils-linaro-2.23.2… GCC version gcc version 4.8.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu9) Ubuntu 13.10 Steps: 1) /work/sources/binutils/configure --target=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu --prefix=/work/builds/gcc-fsf-trunk/tools --with-sysroot=/work/builds/gcc-fsf-trunk/sysroot-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu 2) make (Snip) gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -I. -I/work/sources/binutils/libiberty/../include -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wc++-compat -Wstrict-prototypes -pedantic /work/sources/binutils/libiberty/regex.c -o regex.o In file included from /work/sources/binutils/libiberty/regex.c:128:0: /usr/include/stdlib.h:510:35: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘__attribute_alloc_size__’ __THROW __attribute_malloc__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((2)) __wur; ^ make[2]: *** [regex.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/work/builds/gcc-fsf-trunk/obj-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/binutils/libiberty' (Snip) Can anyone point me what is going wrong here. regards, Venkat,

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro binutils 2.24 2013.12 released

by Victor Chong

### About Linaro binutils Linaro binutils is a release of the GNU binutils with bug fixes and enhancements for ARM platforms. GNU binutils is a collection of tools including the ld linker and as assembler. ### Linaro binutils 2.24 2013.12 The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2013.12 release of Linaro binutils 2.24. This release is based on the latest GNU binutils 2.24 stable branch, but with additional features and bug fixes. ### Additional Features * Support for GNU indirect functions ### Bug Fixes * Fixed miscalculation of GOTPLT offset for ifunc syms * Handle static links with ifunc correctly * Fixup IFUNC tests to work on all targets ### Source ### Release Tarball * https://releases.linaro.org/13.12/components/toolchain/binutils-linaro ### Development Tree * git://git.linaro.org/toolchain/binutils-gdb.git This release was built from the linaro_binutils-2_24-2013_12_release tag. ### Feedback and Support 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` * Questions? [ask Linaro](http://ask.linaro.org/). * Interested in commercial support? inquire at [Linaro support](mailto:support@linaro.org)

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[ACTIVITY] Week 51

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * none == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (8/10) - Validated and committed a fix from Vladimir for Thumb1 issues. - iWMMXT issue : Tried a fix without success, continue working on it. o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (0/10) - No progress this week. * Various meetings. (2/10) == Next == * Vacation

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[ACTIVITY] 16 - 19 December 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Debugged and Fixed process record memory corruption problem. [TCWG-315][TCWG-317][8/10] * Sick Time off [2/10] == Plan == * Send patches for bug fixes and look into remaining arm-native gdb issues. * Respond to maintainer's suggestion on process record patches. * Public Holiday on 25th * Time off for setting up new office space.

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[Activity] 16-19 DEC 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * Libssp GCC patch Replied to Marcus comments on libssp machine description support for stack protect and test. Analyzed other ports implementations on clearing register that loaded canary value. Waiting for his feedback. * Pointer mangling Aarch64 glibc. Investigated mangling support and implemented a patch. Testing glibc test suites in V8 Foundation model is in progress. * Attend Linaro Tool chain status meeting. * Attend 1-1 with Christophe (Linaro). * Attend 1-1 with Matt (Linaro) . == Plan == - Pointer Guard support in Aarch64 glibc - Continue tesing Cbuildv2

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[ACTIVITY] Week 51

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * Rebase aarch64 build scripts to crosstool-ng upstream, test and send out the patch for community review (2/10). * Investigate https://ci.linaro.org/jenkins/job/openembedded-armv8b-rootfs/gcc_version=4.…. It seams build configure issue. Some MICRO is not correctly defined. Can not follow-up it due to no access to the build system. * Continue on "uninit warning testsuite failures" (CARD 304 7/10) - Identify another reason why uninit-pred-8_b.c FAIL: The control flow is too complex, it can not normalize the condition at line 22 to ( n < 10 || m > 100 || r < 10 ). - Work on patch to fix PHI issue to make uninit-pred-9_b.c PASS. * Test builds for backporting "ftruncate() and truncate() stubs" related patches in Linaro newlib. == Plan == * Linaro toolchain binaries 2013.12 release.

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[ACTIVITY] 16-20 December 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == - Integrate benchmarking into Cbuildv2 (TCWG-360 7/10) - Implementation mostly complete - Started testing to ensure compatible with cbuild1 - Code available for comments at https://git.linaro.org/toolchain/cbuild2.git/shortlog/refs/heads/benchmarki… - Binutils Bug 16340 (1/10) - Posted the patch after regression testing and analysing the results - Mics (2/10) - Read relocation handling of tls and its implementation for aarch64 == Plan == - Complete Integrate benchmarking into Cbuildv2 - Address comments for Binutils Bug 16340 and look to come up with a simple testcase

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[ACTIVITY] Week 51

by Renato Golin

== Progress == * Android LLVM - Discussions on progress, trying to line up kernel+AOSP together - Google has bailed Clang/LLVM for L release, will consider for next one * Vectorizer - Progressing on the implementation of the pragma parser - http://llvm.org/PR18086 - Discussions about introduction of generic function vectorizer (ARM) * Release 3.4 - Tested RC3, no regressions on tests or benchmarks - http://people.linaro.org/~rengolin/llvm/ - http://llvm.org/pre-releases/3.4/rc3/ - Looked at a bug on the vectorizer for pentium3/freebsd - Work around found, not easy enough to get them to RC4 * Background - Many discussions, many support requests, many patch reviews - Adding BOF notes to dev meeting site - Booking train and hotel for FOSDEM 14 * Time - CARD-862 8/10 - Others 2/10 * Happy Holidays! And see you in January! == Issues == * Running benchmarks on my Chromebook is very unstable. - Even though the standard deviation is small in two different moments, the two results are statistically incompatible. - The wireless network on the Chromebook, as widely known, is unstable and unpredictable. - I need a graphical interface, so I can do stuff during Connects, or to see Phoronix results and that is probably the responsible for all instability - Next release, I'll use an ODroid (or Arndale) for benchmarks == Plan == * Holidays!

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[ACTIVITY] 16-20 December 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == - 2013.12 releases (4/10) * Handover to Michael * Committed remaining backports/branch merges * Unexpected regression in 4.7 branch narrowed to a linker bug, now fixed. - cross validations (2/10) * stabilized armeb+qemu validations - misc (4/10): misc conf-calls and meetings; internal meetings == Next == Next 2 weeks off (Dec 23rd Jan 3rd) Merry Christmas and happy new year to all of you.

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ARM vs THUMB builds

by Parimala Baggiri

Hello, I am using the pre-built toolchain gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_6-2012q2 from linaro to compile u-boot (u-boot-linaro-stable) and to compile my standalone applications to run on target(PandaBoard ES rev b2) hello_world standalone application which comes with u-boot is executing fine on target when I disable CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD, but when I enable it, target gets reset with following information Panda # go 82000000 hello ## Starting application at 0x82000000 ... undefined instruction pc : [<8200000c>] lr : [<bff83147>] sp : bfeffe40 ip : bfeffc10 fp : 00000000 r10: 00000003 r9 : bffac954 r8 : bfefff68 r7 : bff01d88 r6 : 82000000 r5 : bff01d8c r4 : 00000003 r3 : 82000000 r2 : bff01d8c r1 : bff01d8c r0 : 00000002 Flags: nzCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 Resetting CPU ... resetting ... U-Boot SPL 2013.01.-rc1-g0f45941 (Dec 17 2013 - 14:23:41) OMAP4460 <http://www.ti.com/product/OMAP4460> ES1.1 OMAP SD/MMC: 0 reading u-boot.img reading u-boot.bin reading u-boot.bin ...... Can anyone please help me why thumb mode build is failing?

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Re: MMU Off / Strict Alignment

by Richard Earnshaw

On 18/12/13 05:06, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > At the risk of sticking my nose in, this isn't a startup code issue. > It's a contract issue. > > First, I don't buy Richard's argument about memcpy() startup costs and > hard-to-predict branches. We do those tests on essentially every > *other* RISC platform without complaint, and it's very easy to order > those branches so that the currently efficient cases run well. Perhaps > more to the point, I haven't seen anybody put forward quantitative > data that using the MMU for unaligned references is any better than > executing those branches. Speaking as a recovering processor > architect, that assumption needs to be validated quantitatively. My > guess is that the branches are faster if properly arranged. > > Second, this is a contract issue. If newlib intends to support > embedded platforms, then it needs to implement algorithms that are > functionally correct without relying on an MMU. By all means use > simpler or smarter algorithms when an MMU can be assumed to be > available in a given configuration, but provide an algorithm that is > functionally correct when no MMU is available. "Good overall > performance in memcpy" is a fine thing, but it is subject to the > requirement of meeting functional specifications. As Jochen Liedtke > famously put it (read this in a heavy German accent): "Fast, ya. But > correct? (shrug) Eh!" > > So: we need a normative statement saying what the contract is. The > rest of the answer will fall out from that. > > I do agree with Richard that startup code is special. I've built > deeply embedded runtimes of one form or another for 25 years now, and > I have yet to see a system where optimizing a simplistic byte-wise > memcpy during bootstrap would have made any difference in anything > overall. That said, if the specification of memcpy requires it to > handle incompatibly aligned pointers (and it does), and the contract > for newlib requires it to operate in MMU-less scenarios in a given > configuration (which, at least in some cases, it does), it's > completely legitimate to expect that bootstrap code can call memcpy() > and expect behavior that meets specifications. > > So what's the contract? > I disagree with your assertion that newlib *requires* it to operate in an MMU-less scenario for all targets; it only does so when the target can reasonably be expected to not have an MMU. The only contract that exists is the one written in the C standard: 7.23.2.1#2 The memcpy function copies n characters from the object pointed to by s2 into the object pointed to by s1. If copying takes place between objects that overlap, the behavior is undefined. But that is written on the assumption that we're in a normal execution environment, not in some special case. What you're missing is that AArch64 is (in ARM ARM terms) an A-profile only environment where an MMU is mandated in the system. Furthermore, processors implementing the architecture will *expect* that the MMU be turned on as soon as possible after boot, since without this the caches cannot be used and without those the performance will be truly horrible. Once the caches are enabled, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that memcpy will only be used for copies to and from NORMAL memory, since other types of memory have potential side effects, which means that use of memcpy would be unsafe. If you want to write an MMU-less memcpy, then feel free to write one; but please install it with a different interface -- something like __memcpy_nommu(). Don't penalise the standard case for the non-standard exceptional one. R.

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segfault using __thread variable

by Michael Hudson-Doyle

Hi all, I have a bit of a strange one. I'm not after a full solution, just any hints that quickly come to mind :) After a few simple patches I have a build of mongodb for aarch64 (built with gcc-4.8). However, all of the test binaries that the build spits out immediately segfault. gdb-ing shows that they segfault inside this macro: TSP_DECLARE(OwnedOstreamVector, threadOstreamCache); This expands to: # define TSP_DECLARE(T,p) \ extern __thread T* _ ## p; \ template<> inline T* TSP<T>::get() const { return _ ## p; } \ extern TSP<T> p; And indeed, it's mongo::TSP<mongo::OwnedPointerVector<...> >::get() const that we're segfaulting in. This is the disassembly of this function (at -O0) with the faulting instruction marked: 0x00000000004b4b6c <+0>: stp x29, x30, [sp,#-32]! 0x00000000004b4b70 <+4>: mov x29, sp 0x00000000004b4b74 <+8>: str x0, [x29,#16] 0x00000000004b4b78 <+12>: adrp x0, 0x64c000 0x00000000004b4b7c <+16>: ldr x0, [x0,#776] 0x00000000004b4b80 <+20>: nop 0x00000000004b4b84 <+24>: nop 0x00000000004b4b88 <+28>: mrs x1, tpidr_el0 0x00000000004b4b8c <+32>: add x0, x1, x0 => 0x00000000004b4b90 <+36>: ldr x0, [x0] 0x00000000004b4b94 <+40>: ldp x29, x30, [sp],#32 0x00000000004b4b98 <+44>: ret And the registers: (gdb) info registers x0 0x7fb863fd70 548554407280 x1 0x7fb7ff76f0 548547819248 x2 0x0 0 x3 0x7fb7fc11b8 548547596728 x4 0x1 1 x5 0x0 0 x6 0x50 80 x7 0x0 0 x8 0x0 0 x9 0x6165727473676f4c 7018141438804717388 x10 0x0 0 x11 0x0 0 x12 0x2 2 x13 0x10 16 x14 0x0 0 x15 0x7fb7e5e590 548546143632 x16 0x64b3d8 6599640 x17 0x7fb7f667d0 548547225552 x18 0x7fffffdab0 549755804336 x19 0x7fffffed50 549755809104 x20 0xb 11 x21 0xb 11 x22 0x6500b0 6619312 x23 0x650070 6619248 x24 0x7fffffff 2147483647 x25 0x64db40 6609728 x26 0x7fffffeda0 549755809184 x27 0x653d00 6634752 x28 0x7fffffe750 549755807568 x29 0x7fffffe4d0 549755806928 x30 0x4b4ed4 4935380 sp 0x7fffffe4d0 0x7fffffe4d0 pc 0x4b4b90 0x4b4b90 <mongo::TSP<mongo::OwnedPointerVector<std::basic_ostringstream<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >::get() const+36> cpsr 0x20000000 536870912 fpsr 0x0 0 fpcr 0x0 0 If I recompile this object file without -fPIC, it works. I guess I see three things that could be wrong: 1) The operand to "adrp x0, 0x64c000"[1] 2) The operand to "ldr x0, [x0,#776]" 3) The value of tpidr_el0 Oh, and I guess: 4) The setup of tls has gone wrong and the address in x0 _ought_ to be accessible but isn't for some reason. Any hints on which of these seems mostly likely to be the culprit? Chers, mwh [1] FWIW, objdump reports 0x64c000 as "_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_+0x2d0", not sure why that doesn't show up in gdb's disassembly).

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[ACTIVITY] Week 51

by Will Newton

== Progress == * Bugfixing and testing QEMU AArch64 FP patches (3/10, VIRT-183) * Debugging and submitting a patch for ARM gdb ifunc test failures (1/10) * Two day week due to holidays == Issues == * None == Plan == * Back on the 9th January, have a good Christmas and New Year everybody! -- Will Newton Toolchain Working Group, Linaro

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MMU Off / Strict Alignment

by Christopher Covington

Hi, We've noticed an issue trying to use the Linaro AArch64 binary bare metal toolchain release with the MMU turned off for some low-level tests. Anytime puts, sprintf, etc. gets called, a reent structure gets created with references to STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR FILE types. A member in the __sFile struct, _mbstate, is an 8 byte struct, but is not aligned on an 8 byte boundary. This means that when memset (or a similar function) gets called on this struct, and doesn't operate one byte at a time, a data alignment fault will be generated when operating out of device memory, such as on a system where the MMU has not yet been turned on yet. I'm still examining possible fixes (I'll probably look at building with -mstrict-align first), but I wanted to check if anyone had thoughts on the subject and if Newlib upstream or Linaro consider using Newlib with the MMU turned off to be a valid use case or if running the code that turns on the MMU is considered a prerequisite to everything else. Thanks, Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 50

by Charles Baylis

== Progress == TCWG-293 (9/10) - wrote and tested 64bit division code - it seems to work - still need to do performance testing TCWG-347 Fix PR59142 (1/10) - split into series of 3 patches - patch almost ready, was held up by non-availability of the lab - need to bootstrap on Thumb-1 to prove change made in response to review comments TCWG-346 AArch64 Benchmarking: CoreMark & Dhrystone - no significant progress, no access to the lab == Next == Pick up aarch64 benchmarking when the board becomes accessible again Submit PR59142

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[ACTIVITY] 9-13 December 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == - 2013.12 releases (4/10): * stalled due to lab unavailability. * A couple of backports are waiting for approval, another one is being debugged. - cross-validation (4/10): fixed arneb+qemu validations. - misc (2/10): misc conf-calls and meetings == Next == - Make 2013.12 releases - cbuild2: continue testing, try to make 4.7 source release - libsanitizer on AArch64: resume work == Future == Next 2 weeks off (Dec 23rd-Jan 3rd)

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[ACTIVITY] Week 50

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * 1.5 day of due to car issue. (3/10) * Calxedas are down after lab maintenance. == Progress == * LRA on AArch32: o TCWG-343 : Make LRA the default for the ARM backend (5/10) - Turn LRA on by default committed as rev205887 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-12/msg01088.html - New Thumb regressions reported (Cortex-m0 and bootstrap), analysis ongoing. - Analysed last week regressions and reported them upstream, Vladimir fixed them at rev205974. - iWMMXT issue : work ongoing. o TCWG-345 : Analyse performance of LRA for ARM. (0/10) - No progress this week. * Reviewed some merge requests. (1/10) * Various meetings. (1/10) == Next == * Continue LRA, merge and patch reviews.

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[ACTIVITY] 9 - 13 December 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Debugging and analysis of various gdb test suite failures [TCWG-34] [5/10] Updated googledoc sheet with action items and comments on different failures. Investigated remote core file generation issues. Prepared a patch to turn off corefile dependent tests in remote configs. * Debugged gdb.reverse testsuite failures [TCWG-197] [4/10] Found a memory corruption issue where execution log is being corrupted in memory. * Time off for dentist appointment and office relocation stuff [1/10] == Plan == * Figure out a reason and fix for process record memory corruption problem. * Further analysis of test suite failures in arm-native Vs x86-native and arm-remote Vs x86-remote test results. * Send patch to disable corefile tests in remote mode. Ping process record and other previous patches.

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[Activity] 09-13 DEC 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == - Libssp GCC (4/10) - Rebased GCC source and added patch for stack protect and test based on global stack guard. Discussing with Marcus on generic stack protect set and test versus machine descriptions. Discussed with ARM and Glibc Maintainers, Dropped my patches for TLS based stack guard. - Cbuildv2 experiments (3/10) - Built cross compiler with Cbuilv2. - Discussing with Ryan on building tool chain without cbuild.validation.linaro.org dependency - PGO support for aarch64 (1/10) Read a paper on PGO optimization in GCC - Cross build some benchmarks(2/10). There were omp.h file missing errors when Linaro tool chain was used. The issue is the tool chain is not built with libgomp library. Rebuilt the tool chain after checkign configuration changes with Zhenqiang Chen . == Plan == - Inverstigate Pointer Guard support in Aarch64 glibc - Continue tesing Cbuildv2 - Continue PGO investigations

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[Weekly] 09-13 DEC 2013

by Kugan

== Progress == - aarch64 bootstrapping (TCWG-348 4/10) - patch committed and card closed - http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=205891 - Integrate benchmarking into Cbuildv2 (TCWG-360 6/10) - Adding missing functionality == Plan == - Continue with Integrate benchmarking into Cbuildv2

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[ACTIVITY] Week 50

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * Enable libomp for aarch64*-linux-gnu builds in Linaro crosstool-ng. * Backporting r200103 and r205509 to Linaro 4.8. * Try to enable lra and test Spec2k with -fno-move-loop-invariants and -fira-loop-pressure. But still no overall performance improvement. (2/10) * Try conditional compare related changes (CARD 313: 3/10) - Set LOGICAL_NON_SHORT_CIRCUIT to false in fold-const.c. - Do ifcombine twice. - Logs show lots of new FAILs in vrp related cases and no performance improvement in Spec2k INT. * Identified the root causes of "uninit warning testsuite failures" (CARD 304: 3/10) - Some values are from PHI, which is not handled when checking subset. - Function is_included_in is conservative. Here is its comments: /* ... It returns false if ONE_PRED's domain is not a subset of any of the sub-domains of PREDS ( corresponding to each individual chains in it), even though it may be still be a subset of whole domain of PREDS which is the union (ORed) of all its subdomains. In other words, the result is conservative. */ == Plans == * 2013.12 toolchain binaries release. * Continue on CARD 313 and 304.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 50 (Dec 9 - Dec 13)

by Ryan Arnold

== Progress == (4/10) * TCWG-372 fix Cbuildv2 parsing to handle the new binutils-gdb repository (4/10) - Completed Card with following commits. commit e6e39f5d1f7963332b3d7dd2e4400de91847219c Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue Dec 10 16:08:17 2013 -0600 Correct get_toolname to work with unified repo: binutils-gdb.git Secondary fixes required: - Set config/binutils.conf and config/gdb.conf to use unified repo binutils-gdb.git. - Re-enable binutils-gdb.git in config/sources.conf. - get_toolname now calls get_git_tool and determines the actual toolname for binutils and gdb from the branch name if the repository is unified. - Made all other usages of get_git_tool use get_toolname instead. - checkout() now uses ${repo} as returned from get_git_repo as the git repository instead of ${tool}.git. This allows a unified repository to only be checked out once. - The git parser now determines whether an http:// in a url means a git service or an svn service. - The git parser now returns branch names for launchpad urls with branches in the url. - The git parser now returns the tool name properly for an svn service. - The git parser testsuite now has testcases for all new additions. Also - Added --snapshots functionality to allow specifying an existing snapshots directory. - Add testcases to test.sh to test --snapshots functionality. - Changes test.sh --snapshots directive to --md5sums to avoid confusion with cbuild2.sh --snapshots. * TCWG-323 Interface hardening (5/10) - Card in progress with following commits: commit cc7193d8ddb86c4ed7d16086f8ee968ae4bae87f Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Thu Dec 12 11:40:00 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: All error exit paths should use build_failure(). commit 2a4ec7fa0b7c48e0c6e05a7549f64e3336022f45 Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Wed Dec 11 14:08:51 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Added check_directive() to unify bounds checking. Also added accompanying top-level test.sh fragments to test check_directive. Change-Id: Ia42a4b241a5ca62d41dccf1d8e023980ad0a04d0 commit c9ec21200260bdb26d9fe9b26d7ce390579a0ca2 Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Wed Dec 11 13:07:15 2013 -0600 test.sh: Fixed to work with a temporary host.conf file. Require change due to commit 3b5c576630a8ac08cd3b9ab9eab781308549a858 which requires a host.conf file for finding the cbuild topdir. Change-Id: I991bb5f2a7949267bf69fba093d6becd202ad138 commit 16a45027be798b06160916234713f5dc35b2ecbb Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue Dec 10 18:16:09 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Bounds check --set input. Change-Id: I8ebffd1809b17962aef58f2a08277d5f639d7e3e commit d7ee602c24231e24457c93208f749cbdd0357115 Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue Dec 10 18:03:04 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Remove --srcdir. It didn't do anything. Change-Id: I5b99c7ae8dc542cb62516104bd0bf9d1888afc52 commit 53e9c74966442c41cc9512f27f46ef849d62bcc8 Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue Dec 10 17:58:54 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Remove --dispatch support. It didn't do anything. commit 289ade38f100872653218da4792fbb1650d3b231 Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Wed Dec 11 10:27:37 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Bounds check --release switch. Change-Id: I90804ea02b995d476b148fb68db955d164bc674c commit 9bae259ebbff193e29899edf8a47190747d2bc1b Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Wed Dec 11 10:09:00 2013 -0600 lib/configure.sh: Add missing closing " Change-Id: I9eee9a934a6cbb60bd1e2db6b0af9faf19fa5188 commit 16a45027be798b06160916234713f5dc35b2ecbb Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue Dec 10 18:16:09 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Bounds check --set input. Change-Id: I8ebffd1809b17962aef58f2a08277d5f639d7e3e commit d7ee602c24231e24457c93208f749cbdd0357115 Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue Dec 10 18:03:04 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Remove --srcdir. It didn't do anything. Change-Id: I5b99c7ae8dc542cb62516104bd0bf9d1888afc52 commit 53e9c74966442c41cc9512f27f46ef849d62bcc8 Author: Ryan S. Arnold <ryan.arnold(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue Dec 10 17:58:54 2013 -0600 cbuild2.sh: Remove --dispatch support. It didn't do anything. Change-Id: I4b6ee8db0d3e74510b95c816469b0c100207972f * Misc (1/10) - Now using gerrit with git review for handling cbuildv2 development. - Reviewed V Chong's proposed outline for toolchain documentation and made suggestions and edits. == Plan == * Move onto working primarily on glibc Jira cards. == Issues == * Lab migration took cbuild.validation.linaro.org down for several unplanned days and therefore toolchain sources were unavailable during that time. I made do by adding some features into cbuildv2 to use alternative snapshots directories.

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