Re: gfortran windows builds script

2010-05-23 Thread FX
> The current trunk does require flex. > The build dies pretty quickly unless flex is available. Was the flex dependency recently reintroduced? It used to be that if you update trunk with contrib/gcc_update (instead of svn up), it sets the modifcation time of generated files so that flex

Re: LTO and libelf (and FreeBSD)

2010-05-23 Thread Steve Kargl
Kai, I tested your patch posted here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2010-05/msg00445.html to address the issue % cat x.c int main() { } % gccvs -flto x.c % gccvs -fwhopr x.c lto1: fatal error: elf_update() failed: Layout constraint violation compilation terminated. lto-wrapper

[RFC] Quad-float support for gfortran

2010-05-23 Thread FX
Dear gfortranners, For some work-related issue, I find the need to switch my code regularly between double precision real arithmetics and quad-float. I currently do that with a proprietary compiler whose brand name matches the regexp "^In{1,}[t]\x65l$", but I'd be even more happy to do that wit

gcc-4.3-20100523 is now available

2010-05-23 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.3-20100523 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.3-20100523/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.3 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches

Re: Deprecating ARM FPA support

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Mitchell
Steven Bosscher wrote: > There are lots of other ports that could be dropped to improve > maintainability of some backends, or even the whole of GCC. That has > never been accepted as a good reason to drop anything if there are > still users of it, no matter how few (see pdp11 / vax backends, > os

Re: Deprecating ARM FPA support (was: ARM Neon Tests Failing on non-Neon Target)

2010-05-23 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Martin Guy wrote: > >> Dropping FPA support from GCC effectively makes the OABI unusable, and >> often we are forced to use that by the environment supplied to us. Are >> there significant advantages to removing FPA support, other than >> re

Re: Deprecating ARM FPA support (was: ARM Neon Tests Failing on non-Neon Target)

2010-05-23 Thread Mark Mitchell
Martin Guy wrote: > Dropping FPA support from GCC effectively makes the OABI unusable, and > often we are forced to use that by the environment supplied to us. Are > there significant advantages to removing FPA support, other than > reducing the size of the ARM backend? I think that maintainabili

Re: GCC 4.3.5 Status Report (2010-05-22)

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Guenther
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 2010, Richard Guenther wrote: >> The GCC 4.3.5 release has been created and uploaded, it will >> be announced once the mirrors had a chance to pick it up. >> [...] >> I will continue to send status reports for the 4.3 branch w

Re: GCC 4.3.5 Status Report (2010-05-22)

2010-05-23 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sat, 22 May 2010, Richard Guenther wrote: > The GCC 4.3.5 release has been created and uploaded, it will > be announced once the mirrors had a chance to pick it up. > [...] > I will continue to send status reports for the 4.3 branch when > applicable. I am wondering, should I stop the weekly sn

Re: LTO and libelf (and FreeBSD)

2010-05-23 Thread Kai Wang
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:48:20AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Kai Wang wrote: > > The elf_getbase() API in FreeBSD libelf can only be called using an > > archive member ELF descriptor. It will return -1 (indicates an error) > > when called with a "regular" ELF object. > >

Re: Where does the time go?

2010-05-23 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Steven Bosscher wrote: > think, the tree-like representation. If you have an instruction like > (set (a) (b+c)) you could have, at the simples, three integers (insn > uid, basic block, instruction code) and three pointers for operands. > In total, on a 64 bits host: 3*4+3*8 =

Re: LTO and libelf (and FreeBSD)

2010-05-23 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sat, 22 May 2010, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > I'll be submitting result for that around noon your time tomorrow- > Right now I am testing vanilla GCC and patched FreeBSD libelf, my > tester is just rather slow. Like Kai's patch to FreeBSD's libelf http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2010-05/ms