[ACTIVITY] 27 March to 1 April 2016

[Prathamesh Kulkarni]

== This Week ==

* LTO (7/10)
a) TCWG-534 (ipa-comdats):
- Patch posted upstream: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-03/msg00254.html
- Investigating ICE with patch for comdat-2.C
b) TCWG-128 (branch out of range error):
- Posted patch upstream:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-04/msg00032.html
c) intra-procedural vrp:
- Looking to implement replacement_order algorithm for early vrp from the paper:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/paramnt/publications/1381.pdf

* Validation (2/10)
- Reviews on tcwg-buildapp from Christophe and Maxim
- prototype job ran successfully.

* Misc (1/10)
- Meetings

== Next Week ==
* LTO:
- Try to implement replacement order algorithm for vrp
- Continue investigating ipa-comdats ICE and address upstream comments.
- Gather stats for chromium LTO build

* Validation:
- write script to build chromium

[kugan]

== Progress ==

* Type promotion pass (4/10)
- Tested many different architectures
- Branch created
- Getting ready to benchmark

* LTO (2/10)
- Read VRP algorithms - new
- Discussing algorithm implementation

* Bugs (1/10)
- PR70359

* Misc (1/10)
- GCC Lists
- Jenkins benchmarking jobs

* Public holiday (2/10)

== Plan ==
* LTO and VRP