== Progress ==
* Add REG_EQUAL note for arm_emit_movpair (1/10)
- Updated and reposted
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00295.html
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-06/msg02066.html
* Factor conversion out of COND_EXPR - TCWG-849 (3/10)
- https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00246.html
* TACT -TCWG-851 (2/10)
- Small examples now seem to work.
- Have to do cross testing
* Git work flow for upstream patches -TCWG-848 (1/10)
- Updated based on review
* Misc (3/10)
- Looked up LLVM documents
- Looked at the TODO list Renato provided
- gcc-patches, gcc-bugs list
- Meetings
== Plan ==
- GCC Bugs
- TACT driven optimization exploration for gcc
- Linaro bug 1318
== This Week ==
* TCWG-856 (2/10)
- submitted patch to flatten cfgloop.h:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-07/msg00277.html
* TCWG-777 (4/10)
- Modified pass to not generate redundant stores
- Investigating ICE caused by the pass during gcc build
- Discussions for possible approaches with Christophe and Kugan
- Reading thru documentation on optabs and ccmp patches
* Misc (4/10)
- Patch sent upstream which fixes segfault in gcc for -dx option.
- Filed upstream binutils bug for "branch range out of error"
- Conference calls
- Travel to Mumbai for US Visa OFC appointment
== Next Week ==
- Word towards committing cfgloop.h flattening patch
- Continue working on TCWG-830, TCWG-777, TCWG-847
== Progress ==
* Maintenance (CARD-1833 4/10)
- ADD/SUB with negative immediates solved by a year old
patch from ARM, sigh. On to the next bug... :(
- Working on https://llvm.org/PR20700
* Buildbots (CARD-1823 2/10)
- Moving benchmark bot to CMake, fixing deepcopy bug in
environment that broke new builds
- Restarting a few bots that crashed
* Background (4/10)
- Code review, meetings, discussions, etc.
- A lot of code review this week...
- Blocking disrespectful web spiders in llvm.org
- Emacs now almost works as I expect
== Plan ==
* Continue PR20700
* Have a look at Polybench
* Look for some more bugs to fix
Benchmarking presentation [7/10]
* More reading
* Ran through a couple more drafts
Misc [3/10]
* Featuring a bug in my backup scripts that took ~1/10 to fix
=Plan=
Back to benchmark automation as main activity
Presentation in the background
== Progress ==
LLDB development
-- Support for running lldb on arm hard float abi targets [TCWG-855] [7/10]
-- Built lldb-server for armhf trusty chromebook
-- Figured out problem with lldb-server showing up i386-linux-gnu as
target triple.
-- Verfied load of arm-elf executable and breakpoint setting.
-- LLDB GDBserver dies while trying to run the target.
Miscellaneous [3/10]
-- Playing with highkey board and setup chromebook with armhf and armel
chroots on ssd.
-- Preparing document for Czech Republic visa
-- Meetings, emails, discussions etc.
== Plan ==
LLDB development
-- Further progress and try to fix run control on armhf targets [TCWG-855]
== This week ==
* TCWG-146 - Detect smin/umin idion (1/10)
- Patch sent upstream for approval
* TCWG-140 - Transform end of loop conditions to min_expr (4/10)
- Patch and investigating validation regressions
* TCWG-833 - Exploit Wide Add operations when appropriate (4/10)
- Investigation into why vectorizer does not exploit wide adds
* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls
- Conference call with Kugan and Prathamesh to discuss GCC Git workflow
- Conference call with Charles and Prathamesh to discuss
autovectorization
== Next week ==
- Vacation
== Progress ==
(TCWG-831) post-indexed addressing [3/10]
. vectorization project kick-off call
. code browsing/reading to understand mailing list feedback about previous patch
(TCWG-775) NEON error messages [6/10]
. completed conversion of some ARM intrinsics to give same error
messages as AArch64 work
. reworked tests so they can be shared between AArch64, ARM.
. re-submitted previous patch with updated tests
Misc [1/10]
email, irc, gerrit reviews, connect travel booking, AArch64 qemu
big-endian experiment
== Plans ==
submit patch for work done so far on ARM NEON error messages
cortex-a53 workarounds
Benchmark automation - TCWG-360 [3/10]
* Created a partial Jenkins prototype
* Considered some security issues
Benchmarking presentation [5/10]
* Drafted some slides, did some reading
Misc [2/10]
=Plan=
More of the above
== Progress ==
* TCWG-849 (1/10)
- Committed improvement for VRP
https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=225108
* Add REG_EQUAL for arm_emit_movpair (4/10)
- Posted patches for review
* TACT -TCWG-851 (3/10)
- Started with the small examples.
- Ran into an error while tuning; looking into it
* Git work flow for upstream patches -TCWG-848 (1/10)
- Had a chat with Michael and Prathamesh
- Tried the work-flow and now started documenting them
* Misc (1/10)
- gcc-patches, gcc-bugs list
- Meetings
== Plan ==
- GCC Bugs
- TACT driven optimization exploration for gcc
