[ACTIVITY] 16-20 April 2018

[Christophe Lyon]

== Progress ==
* GCC
- FDPIC
- binutils: sent updated patch with new target name
- GCC: cleaning patch series
- QEMU: updated patches according to Peter's feedback

* GCC upstream validation:
- minor testsuite fixes

* Infrastructure:
- Linux kernel + lava failing: kernel now fixed, job OK again
* misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....)

== Next ==
* FDPIC:
- Handle feedback on binutils and QEMU patches
- GCC continue cleanup
* GCC upstream validation

[Kugan Vivekanandarajah]

* GCC Benchmarking
- Tried Jenkins jobs for trunk benchmarking and posted a patch to
fix -std=legacy needed for gfortran
- Going over the job definitions to add support for SPEC2017

* LLVM
- Looking at spec2006 difference compared to gcc in astar due to
speculative devirtualization not happening
- Going over the background material in Honza's blog and LLVM presentations