[ACTIVITY] Weekly report for week 40

[Thomas Preudhomme]

=== Work done during this past week ===

* One day annual leave
* TCWG-1428 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable):
+ started cleaning up code and continued adding support for last syntax tweaks
* TCWG-1379 / GCC PR85434 / CVE-2018-12886: rework needed
+ After more testing committed fix for register allocator and
reverted following regression
+ fall back to workaround as register allocator lack information to
decide whether it's safe to not reload an address
+ start testing workaround more extensively
* TCWG-1470 / PR87374: upstream review
+ add missing documentation, improve related code slightly, submit
for external review again
Misc:
+ bits of line management
+ Doughnut session on OSS strategy
+ discussion around JIRA use in TCWG


=== Plan for week 41 ===

* TCWG-1379 / GCC PR85434 / CVE-2018-12886:
+ finish testing, and submit new stack protector patch for upstream review
* TCWG-1428 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable):
+ finish change to support last syntax changes
+ extend testcase coverage (add tests for latest syntax change and
add more negative testing)
+ start cleaning up the code
* Try to reproduce perf issue mentioned in week #30's weekly report on
latest perf
* Line management