[Weekly] 11-15 MAY 2015

[Michael Collison]

* TCWG-140 - Transform end of loop conditions to min_expr (3/10)
- Investigation into blueprint and patch

* TCWG-146 - Detect smin/umin idiom (2/10)
- Applied patch which generates improved code. Validation required.

* Illness (4/10)

* Misc (1/10)
- Conference calls

== Next week ==

- Work TCWG-146 and TCWG-1140

[Kugan]

== Progress ==
* Upstream GCC (5/10)
- committed delaying constant splitting in arm after full testing
(TCWG-486)
- Spec benchmarking is still an issue (TCWG-779)
- Bernie agreed to kindly help benchmark it
- taking time due to long lava queue
- Started working on widening pass based on review comments (TCWG-555)
- Wilco from ARM provided some test-cases and looking into it as well

* GCC bootstrap/build issues (4/10)
- Looked at bare-metal
- aarch-elf-none issue
- gcc bootstrap issue with ARM
- middle-end error
- Thanks to all, all now fixed in mainline.

* Misc (1/10)
- gcc-patches, gcc-bugs list
- Meetings

== Plan ==
- Continue with gcc stage1 activities
- Look at register allocation