[ACTIVITY] week ending 11 Jan

[LLVM-520] LLD Fix movt/movw relocation overflow Now committed upstream. [LLVM-521] Taking the address of an ifunc in AArch64 Prompted by a bug report and comment about pointer equivalence, spent some time looking into gold, lld and bfd behaviour to ensure that LLD is at least correct. Other Some

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 11 Jan

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] - code review: + rth's pointer-auth emulation patchset + more devices for the microbit board model + support for u-boot "noload" image type + gdbstub multiprocess extension support for use when the board model has multiple asymm

[ACTIVITY] week ending Jan. 13 2019

Upstream Work ([VIRT-109]) == - posted {PATCH v1 0/6} current fpu/next queue Message-Id: <20190108162154.22259-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org> - posted {PATCH v1 0/3} gitdm updates Message-Id: <2019010729.2087-2-alex.ben...@linaro.org> - posted {PATCH v1 00/19}

[ACTIVITY] 2-11 January 2019

== Progress == * FDPIC - (GNU-499) GCC: wait for feedback on v4 patches, but GCC just entered stage4, so it's probably too late for gcc-9 :-( - (GNU-411) GDB: hacked to build gdbserver, but the resulting binary does not start. * GCC upstream validation: - reported a few regressions - dealing with

[ACTIVITY] 7 January - 11 January 2019

== This Week == * SVE ACLE (6/10) - Working on svlsl_wide patch. * PR887881: Infinite loop in malloc_candidate_p_1 (1/10) * Validation (2/10) - Prototype HCQC wrapper script * Misc (1/10) - Meetings == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks. ___ linar

[ACTIVITY] 7 - 11 January 2019

== Progress == * [ARM GlobalISel] Select complicated G_CONSTANT [LLVM-491] - Negative constants in particular cause a lot of fallbacks in the test-suite/selfhost - Need to help TableGen produce code for MOVi32imm - Ready to commit next week - Looked a bit into enabling MVNi as well, but th

[ACTIVITY] week ending 13 Jan 2019

[VIRT-294 # ARMv8.3-PAuth, Pointer Authentication ] Posted v3 based on feedback. [VIRT-339 # ARMv8.5-BTI, Branch Target Identification ] Posted "v1" to qemu-devel, rebased on v3 pauth [VIRT-344 # ARMv8.5-MemTag, Memory Tagging Extension ] Progressed to the "write a standalone test case" stage

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release GCC 6.5-2018.12

The Linaro Binary Toolchain The Linaro GCC 6.5-2018.12 Release is now available. The GCC 6 Release series has significant changes from the GCC 5 release series. For an explanation of the changes please see the following website: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/cha