Thanks, Suneel.

I have updated the wiki page.  I also moved bugs 566, 567, and 570 to
the RESOLVED/FIXED state.

The individual log messages for the merged changes are in the
open64-booster branch.  You can see them from the trunk by using "svn
log -g" (follow merge history).

-David Coakley / AMD Open Source Compiler Engineering


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Suneel Jain <suneel.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I would like to thank you for the due diligence in validating your code 
> changes
> with the testing you've done and working through the reviewer feedback.
> The addition of the new features, performance improvements and defect
> fixes contained in this merge help advance the Open64 compiler greatly.
> Please go ahead with the merge from the open64-booster branch. Thanks.
>
> Thanks for planning to checkin future changes in smaller chunks. That
> along with the increased number of gatekeepers should help expedite
> the checkin process.
>
> One last request: Could you update the Wiki page for the content of the
> next release with a summary of your major changes. I think you emailed
> this with your initial request a month ago.
>
>  http://wiki.open64.net/index.php/ActiveDevelopment
>
> - Suneel
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:56 PM, David Coakley <dcoak...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Here is an update on the merge of the open64-booster branch into the
>> trunk that we started last month.
>>
>> We have completed all of the testing described in the check-in policy
>> posted at http://wiki.open64.net/index.php/CheckinPolicy.  No
>> regressions were found and the results of some of the test suites were
>> improved.
>>
>> We also received review comments from some gatekeepers and external
>> reviewers, which I summarize here:
>>
>> o In the changes to the inlining heuristics, the reviewer pointed out
>> some dead code that had been added during development and testing.
>> The attached patch addresses the issue by removing that code.
>>
>> o In the review of the code generator changes, there was some
>> discussion about whether some new properties should be at the
>> "processor" level instead of the "isa" level.  The developer felt that
>> these properties were easier to use at the "isa" level given the
>> current design, where only scheduling information is
>> processor-specific.  Also, there were some formatting changes where
>> the developer made the formatting more consistent across the file --
>> any remaining inconsistencies are unintentional and will be addressed
>> in a future update.
>>
>> o In the optimizer changes, the reviewer asked whether we had
>> considered doing the LOWER_SIMPLIFY_BIT_OP transformation earlier, in
>> preopt_phase instead of mainopt_phase.  The developer replied that the
>> main reason to do the transformation while lowering was to avoid
>> complexity in the implementation.  There were also some specific code
>> logic questions that were resolved.
>>
>> Thanks to the reviewers for their feedback!
>>
>> With the approval of one of the global gatekeepers, we would now like
>> to commit the merge changes to the trunk.
>>
>> Finally, I want to add that we understand the difficulty of making
>> large merges through the gatekeeper review system now in place.  We're
>> taking steps that we hope will result in more individual commits and
>> smaller merges in the future.
>>
>> -David Coakley / AMD Open Source Compiler Engineering
>>
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