[ACTIVITY] Week 20

[Yvan Roux]

Short week (2 days off)

== Progress ==

o Upstream GCC (3/6)
* Flags for Cortex-a53 erratum #84341 workaround:
- Backported into FSF 4.9 and 5 branches
* Some cleanup to avoid format-security warnings
* TCWG-786 (LRA and PIC): Look for potential improvements
- nothing found so far.

o Linaro GCC release (2/6)
* Reviewed FSF branch merge into 4.8 branch
* Look at differences between our actual source tarball, and
the ones that can be created by ABE.

o Misc (1/6)
* Various meetings

== Plan ==
- Continue ongoing tasks

[Prathamesh Kulkarni]

== This week ==

* TCWG-619 (2/10)
- Disabling seccomp-bpf, works with LTO build for chromium for
multiple partitions (-flto-partitions={balanced, 1to1})
- disabling fPIC does not prevent the error - "branch out of range"
for single or no partition (--param lto-partitions=1 / -flto-partitions=none )
- The docs say there is option to disable PLT (-fno-plt),
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#Code-Gen-Options
but using it results in unrecognized command line option.

* PR49551 (2/10)
- Found out why r221297 prevents the ICE:
merge_decl() calls make_decl_rtl() upon condtion DECL_RTL_SET_P (olddecl),
which causes the ICE. Before r221297, in merge_decls() DECL_RTL_SET_P
(olddecl) was true which resulted in call to make_decl_rtl() causing
ICE. After r221297, DECL_RTL_SET_P (olddecl) is 0, which doesn't
result in call to make_decl_rtl() so no ICE is produced. However,
DECL_COMMON is still incorrectly set in merge_decls() because it
copies newdecl into olddecl.

- Will post upstream for review after final testing on x86 and ARM.

* Misc (6/10)
- Exams