[Activity] 19-23 September 2016

[Yao Qi]

* Two days off [4/10]

# Progress #

* TCWG-685, GDB 7.12 release. [2/10]
Patch "keep RES0 bits in CPSR" is pushed into mainline and 7.12.
Find a GDBserver bug, and open PR 20627. It is target independent,
but may block the release. :(

* TCWG-518, Range stepping in ARM. [3/10]
Regression test is done. Find some other issues exposed by my
patches, and fix them. Need to post patches upstream for review.

* Misc [1/10]
Close gdbserver in mi_gdb_exit. The bug breaks the aarch64 multi-arch
testing. Patch is pushed in.
File expense for GNU Cauldron travel.

# Plan #

* Linaro Connect.

[Peter Smith]

== Activity ==

Exceptions.

Another attempt at ARM exceptions support. I did get some more fine
grained comments back which have been addressed, but no approval to
commit yet.

Some follow up over whether ld -r support for merging output sections
is necessary, answer seems to be yes as kernel modules depend on it.

I've volunteered to post a simpler patch without ld -r support as this
is a very niche use case. Not had any feedback yet so will just post
it next week.

TLS
Fixed TLS support in lld so that it does not attempt to follow lld's
generic relaxation model, which can't be implemented in ARM. Still
some work to do for static linking.

== Next Week ==
Out of office at Linaro Connect in Las Vegas

== Planned Absences ==
Holiday 10th to 14th October