[ACTIVITY] Aug 12-18

2013-08-18 Thread Rob Savoye
== Progress == * Made it back from the Tetons after a rainy climbing trip * Helped Vish with #357 * Cbuildv2 improvements for cross builds and binary releases * Wrote script to for better Jenkins support * Added more user parameters to Jenkins config page for building

[ACTIVITY] Aug 12-16

2013-08-18 Thread Kugan
== Progress == * spec2k comparison between ARM and x86 - Trying to reproduce some of the earlier optimization studies - Set up Acovea Trying milepost gcc * VRP based zero/sign extension elimination - Posted the modified patch == Plan == * Continue with spec2k comparison between

[ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 August 2013

2013-08-18 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
== Progress == * Libssp support for AArch64 TCWG 23: Understood the TCB datastructure. Sent a mail to the internal team on the changes needed and where to put stack gaurd slot in TCB. Got some comments from Matt. Worked on the changes in eglibc. Tested a simple stack smashing program in

RE: [ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 August 2013

2013-08-18 Thread Pinski, Andrew
I think changing TCB will be changing the ABI. So we don't want to do that I think. Also have you thought about how TCB changes are going to change ILP32 too. I am almost ready to submit the patches for ILP32 out for review on the binutils, glibc, gcc, and kernel lists. Thanks, Andrew

building gcc-linaro for AArch64

2013-08-18 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
Hi, I was trying to build a gcc-linaro that targets AArch64 (mostly following guides such as http://jk.ozlabs.org/docs/arm64-toolchain/) and failing, to be short and simple. Unfortunately I don't have the errors I was encountering to hand, so instead I'll ask: Is the build process for building

Re: [ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 August 2013

2013-08-18 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
Hi Andrew, I am not changing the TCB structure. I am placing it before TCB like the way done in IA64. +# define TLS_PRE_TCB_SIZE \ + (sizeof (struct pthread) \ + + (PTHREAD_STRUCT_END_PADDING 2 * sizeof (uintptr_t) \ + ? ((2 *

RE: [ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 August 2013

2013-08-18 Thread Pinski, Andrew
This will work, except it will be -4 and w1 for ILP32. Thanks, Andrew Pinski From: Venkataramanan Kumar venkataramanan.ku...@linaro.org Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 10:09 PM To: Pinski, Andrew Cc: Linaro Toolchain Subject: Re: [ACTIVITY] 12 - 16 August 2013 Hi