[ACTIVITY] 9-13 March 2015

[Christophe Lyon]

== Progress ==
* 2015.03 release: (1/10)
- reviews (backports, branch merge)

* Validation: (5/10)
- reports improvements
- working on validation matrix coverage improvement

* GCC FSF trunk & 4.9 monitoring

* Misc (4/10)
- meetings, conf-calls, emails, ...

== Next ==
* Validation:
- matrix coverage
- better handling of unstable tests
* Backports:
- improve review tool
- tutorial on conflicts handling

[Kugan]

== Progress ==
* Linaro bugs (2/10)
#1325

* type promotion pass (zero/sign extension elimination) - TCWG-547 (5/10)
- tried to improve some of the aspects and made it more aggressive
- improved handling of CASE_CONVERT
- tried it on CoreMark and it reduces the number of instructions
in per object file basis.
- bootstrapped the latest improvement on x86-64 and regression tested
on x86-64, ARM and AARCH64. noticed few LTO failures on ARM and AARCH64.
Looking into it.
- Plan to run spec2k again
- Current version at linaro-dev/type-promotion-pass

(https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=refs/heads/linaro-dev/type-promotion-pass)


* Misc (1/10)
- gcc-patchs and gcc-bugs list

* Public Holiday (2/10)

== Plan ==
* TCWG-620 and TCWG-547