Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Stump
I've been reading your patches... On Apr 30, 2012, at 4:34 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > In going through the Apple test cases, I discovered one HUGE > disadvantage to using __attribute__ to tag structures for bit reversal > - it doesn't propogate. I.e.: This is why pragma exists. :-) Certainly, onc

Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-30 Thread DJ Delorie
> Set up a cron job to ping once a day. :-) Did you ever dig up the > Apple test cases from the APPLE LOCAL work I pointed you at earlier? > They will be more comprehensive that any testing you've done, and, > if you get them to all pass, the work should be closer to being > complete. The featur

Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Stump
On Apr 3, 2012, at 12:57 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >> Did you ever dig up the Apple test cases from the APPLE LOCAL work I >> pointed you at earlier? > > Sorry, I read that as "the internal tree at Apple" not "the apple > branch at fsf". I'll look at it, thanks! Oh, I just checked the llvm-gcc-4.2 t

Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-03 Thread DJ Delorie
> Did you ever dig up the Apple test cases from the APPLE LOCAL work I > pointed you at earlier? Sorry, I read that as "the internal tree at Apple" not "the apple branch at fsf". I'll look at it, thanks! > They will be more comprehensive that any testing you've done, and, > if you get them to a

Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-03 Thread DJ Delorie
> If it's required for ABI compatibility why is this an attribute and not > a target hook? The ABI uses a #pragma; after this is in I'll do a target-specific pragma handler to set the attribute. Plus, when I originally proposed the idea, I was told it was generic so make it an attribute ;-)

Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Guenther
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:41 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Ping 6... > > It's now been over EIGHT MONTHS since I posted the patch, back in > stage 1 for 4.7.  Can someone please review and/or approve this before > gcc 4.8's stage 1 is closed?  This is needed as a first step for ABI > compatibility for

Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-02 Thread Mike Stump
On Apr 2, 2012, at 12:41 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > Ping 6... > > It's now been over EIGHT MONTHS since I posted the patch, back in > stage 1 for 4.7. Can someone please review and/or approve this before > gcc 4.8's stage 1 is closed? This is needed as a first step for ABI > compatibility for rx-el

Re: [ping 6] [patch] attribute to reverse bitfield allocations (is anyone even reading these?)

2012-04-02 Thread DJ Delorie
Ping 6... It's now been over EIGHT MONTHS since I posted the patch, back in stage 1 for 4.7. Can someone please review and/or approve this before gcc 4.8's stage 1 is closed? This is needed as a first step for ABI compatibility for rx-elf. > Ping 5... > > > Ping 4... > > > > > Ping 3? It's