The Linaro Toolchain Working Group (TCWG) is pleased to announce the
2016.02 snapshot of the Linaro GCC 5 source package.
This monthly snapshot[1] is based on FSF GCC 5.3+svn233233 and
includes performance improvements and bug fixes backported from
mainline GCC. This snapshot contents will be part of the 2016.05
stable [1] quarterly release.
This snapshot tarball is available on:
http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.02/
Interesting changes in this GCC source package snapshot include:
* Updates to GCC 5.3+svn233233
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69135: Mark ARMv8 vcvt
instructions as unconditional
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69187 PR target/65624
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch32] PR target/69403: Bug in
thumb2_ior_scc_strict_it pattern
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR rtl-optimization/68796: Add
patterns for QImode and HImode comparison with zero
* Backport of [Bugfix] [AArch64] PR target/69176
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR target/69175
* Backport of [Bugfix] PR tree-optimization/67781
* Backport of [AArch32] Remove neon_reinterpret, use casts
* Backport of [AArch32] [RTEMS] Add Cortex-M7 multilib for FPU support
* Backport of [AArch64] Avoid emitting zero immediate as zero register
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix jit crash on aarch64
* Backport of [AArch64] Fix -mcpu/arch=native support for LSE
* Backport of [AArch64] Handle compare of zero_extract form of
TST-immediate in rtx costs
* Backport of [AArch64] Handle CSEL of zero_extended operands in rtx costs
* Backport of [AArch64] Properly reject invalid attribute strings
* Backport of [AArch64] Remove TODO (redundant type conversions) in arm_neon.h
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix
gcc.c-torture/execute/loop-2b.c execution failure on cortex-m0
* Backport of [Testsuite] [AArch32] Fix g++.dg/pr67989.C test failure
when running with -march or -mcpu
* Backport of [Doc] Remove outdated text from lto.texi
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[1]. Stable source package releases are defined as releases where the
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[2]. Source package snapshots are defined when the compiler is only
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Automated release benchmark Jenkins job - TCWG-348 [2/10]
* Drafted a job, it succeeds in dispatching to the uinstance
* Needs testing
Port to microinstance - TCWG-432 [5/10]
* Almost entirely fixing up the CPU2006 -> LAVA reporting
* Should now be able to report CPU2000 results as well
Misc [3/10]
* Mail/meetings/etc
* Connect slides
=Plan=
If builder is available, convert uinstance jobs to use it
Test release benchmark job
Produce image reports in microinstance
Attempt to finish backport benchmarking
Actually finish documentation
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Committed patch fixing return value handling on arm-linux-gnueabihf
[TCWG-228]
-- Finished work on handling aggregate types return values on
arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI. [TCWG-228] [5/10]
-- Submitted single and double precision handlers for upstream review.
[TCWG-228]
-- Started work on vector return values and aggregate types return
values with vector elements. [TCWG-228] [2/10]
Miscellaneous [1/10]
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
Public Holiday [2/10]
-- Friday 5th February 2016
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Update and commit aggregate type return values on
arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI patch.
-- Investigate issues while stepping over library functions on
arm-linux-gnueabihf
-- Further work on vector return values on arm-linux-gnueabihf ABI
== Progress ==
o Connect slides (2/10)
* Undefined behavior (slides and review)
o GCC dev. (5/10)
* Remote testing sanitizing: found a solution in dejaGNU and GCC
implementation and test ongoing
* Analysed and closed PR69590
o Misc (3/10)
* Various meetings
* internal discussions
== Plan ==
o Continue on GCC testsuite
o FSF branch merge and 2016.02 snapshot
== This Week ==
* TCWG-319 (1/10)
- Updated patch and re-posted, queued for stage-1
- Regression with armeb for -fvect-cost-model=cheap
* TCWG-528 (1/10)
- speculatively increase alignment for global structs with arrays.
* Backports (3/10)
- committed backport: 232688
- r232631 (partially?) reverts 232330
- modified script to follow git log <file>
* benchmarking (2/10)
- 464.h264ref triggered ICE for -O3 -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon,
reduced it (PR69282)
- Benchmarking tcwg-310 on SPEC2006 - +0.10%
- Benchmarking INT SPEC2k6 for aarch64 without LTO complete.
* Slides (2/10)
- Read doc and created outline for most of slides,
- expect to be mostly complete by next week
* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings
== Next Week ==
- LTO benchmarking and slides
- TCWG-528
== Progress ==
- LTO and TCWG480 (5/10)
* Started testing with the prototype patch
* Still trying to figure out what is the best way to set_range_info
based on IPA
* i.e., how to find the SSA_NAME initialized with PARM_DECL
- Misc (5/10)
* gcc/bug list
* Undefined behaviors slides for connect
* Meetings
== Plan ==
* LTO
* bugs
== This week ==
* Backports (1/10)
- 232493 - Committed to Linaro branch
- 232727 - Committed to Linaro branch
- 232414 - Committed to Linaro branch
* Bugzilla 69663 - [ARM] Implement overflow arithmetic standard names (5/10)
- Implemented SImode add, sub, and neg overflow patterns
- add overflow patterns pass testing
- debugging failures in subv overflow patterns
* Bugzilla 69008 - gcc emits unneeded memory access when passing trivial
structs by value (ARM) (3/10)
- Investigating Dead Store Elimination pass to determine if code can
be improved
* Misc (1/10)
== Next week ==
* Personal days on February 8th and 9th
* Resolve bugzilla 69663 subv issues and work on DImode patterns
* Bugzilla 69008 - continue investigation
* Investigate test case failure on backport 232600
* Off from Mon. to Wed. [6/10]
# Progress #
* TCWG-518. Support range stepping on arm-linux. Ongoing. [2/10]
First do software single step in GDBserver side.
* TCWG-509. GDB 7.11 release. [1/10]
PR 19474, review Keith's patch. The patch is OK to mainline, but we
don't want to take risk shipping this patch to 7.11 release.
* Misc, register to Linaro Connect BKK16, and get clarifications on my
visa to Thailand. [1/10]
* Monitor the discussions on kenernel awareness upstreams, and comment
on the display of CPSR register.
# Plan #
* Finish Linaro Connect slides.
* TCWG-509. Anything needed for GDB 7.11 release.
* TCWG-518.
--
Yao
== Progress ==
* Validation
- disabled Auto Backport Engine until the patch selection
is improved to avoid saturating the builders with undesirable
builds.
- AArch64 bare metal validation (bug #2011). Submitted a patch
for dejagnu aarch64-fv8.exp, and one for our builders schroots.
Will need another patch, in ABE.
- timeout issues: no progress
* Misc (conf calls, meetings, emails, ....)
- internal discussions
== Next ==
* Validation
- debug timeout issues
- cleanup
