== Last week ==
* CoreMark ARMv6/v7 regression patch set for combine: exchanged some
comments on upstream list with Jeff Law. Started some testing on
powerpc64, hit some issues with native bootstrap that I
don't think I completely overcome, but at least completed a 32-bit
bootstrap successfully. Unfortunately hit two regressions after running
tests, will work on fixing this week, and update the upstream submission.

* PR48783: unused reference to __aeabi_uldivmod. Investigated and found
this to be a case where during RTL expand, .global directives for the
__aeabi_* runtime symbols are directly inserted after some div optab
didn't have the insns, and a libfunc was to be used. However later
optimizations that removed the divisions left the .global symbols
dangling with no uses. We could probably just avoid adding the
directives completely for the EABI functions.

* PR42017: ARM LR register not used in leaf functions. This is a case
where DF takes EPILOGUE_USES as part of the initial live registers at
end of functionn, and liveness computations never get to kill it, since
there are no function calls to clobber in a leaf function. Submitted a
patch to remove LR from EPILOGUE_USES before reload, awaiting review.

* LP #689887: investigated more; not much progress, but found that the
bootstrap fail happens only under --with-mode=thumb (Thumb-2). Under ARM
mode the native bootstrap succeeds.

== This week ==
* Try to fix the problems with the CoreMark combine patches.
* Investigate more optimizations/bugs.
* Prepare for travel to Budapest on Saturday.

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