[ACTIVITY] Weekly report for week 31

[Thomas Preudhomme]

=== Work done during this week ===

* TCWG-1379 / GCC PR85434 / CVE-2018-12886: rework needed
+ commit and revert due to regression on x86 and in glibc for aarch64
-> seems there is at least 2 issues, *sigh*
* TCWG-1337 / LLVM PR34170:
+ track down and fix issue that patch 2/3 uncovered, then reapply 2/3
+ investigate regression from patch 1/3, fixed by patch 3/3
fortunately and believe this is the right fix
* Continue work on TCWG-1428 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable):
+ start rework patch to follow new syntax and accept numeric
expressions with several variables
* Linaro PR3943:
+ investigate issue, propose several workarounds to customer and
raise need for GCC release with combined multilib
* Misc:
+ Linaro syncs
+ bits of Linaro JIRA gardening
+ new ask question button and typo fix on developer.arm.com's GNU RM page
+ prepare Linaro Connect



=== Plan for week 32 ===

* Summarize state of GNU EPIC in JIRA
* Enable regression testing of Linaro release process
* DSGHACK-25 (Support arithmetic on FileCheck regex variable): address comments
+ continue to rework patch
* GCC PR85434 / CVE-2018-12886: rework needed
+ investigate regressions
* Try to reproduce perf issue mentioned in last weekly report on latest perf