[ACTIVITY] 4-15 July 2016

[Yao Qi]

* On holiday [6/20]

# Progress #
* TCWG-655, Workaround ARM linux kernel ptrace bug. [2/20]
After the discussion, patch is posted. Pedro is on holiday, so the
patch is pending there for review.

* TCWG-518, ARM range stepping patches. [3/20]
The last "to-be-approved" patch is posted. Pending for review.

* TCWG-333, Thumb mode function pointer assignment in GDB. [2/20]
Working on a patch to handle both ARM/thumb and PPC64.

* TCWG-179, TLS variables can't be resolved in aarch64 GDB. [4/20]
GCC doesn't produce DW_AT_location
for TLS variable, because target hook TARGET_ASM_OUTPUT_DWARF_DTPREL
isn't defined for AArch64. Thanks to Jiong and Szabolcs's help, pick
up knowledge on TLS descriptor and TLS modes quickly. Still need to
figure out how to describe the location of TLS variable in debug info
if they are unknown in compilation/link time.

* Fix gdb.gdb/*.exp and gdb.mi/mi-reverse.exp test fails. [1/20]

* Upstreams patch review. [1/20]

* LAS16, sort out the invitation letter for US visa. [1/20]

# Plan #

* TCWG-333, TCWG-518, TCWG-655 and TCWG-179
* US visa application.