gcc-4.3-20080821 is now available

2008-08-21 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.3-20080821 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.3-20080821/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.3 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches

Re: optimizations with -mcpu=cortex-a8, -mtune=cortex-a8

2008-08-21 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Dasgupta, Romit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I came across the -mpcu=cortex-a8 option in the codesourcery > gcc. When I added that to build the Linux kernel, I found that > there are no differences in the kernel code with and without > the options. The following are the gcc

Re: [PATCH] Update libtool to latest git tip

2008-08-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:02:05PM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Yes, I tried it also - http://pogma.com/misc/gcc-libtool-git20080810.patch (Slight change to ltgcc.m4, otherwise git libtool + generated files). I plan on testing more widely next weekend and proposing a patch

Re: Something general (beginner related)

2008-08-21 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
2008/8/20 Nils Pipenbrinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Let's get to the point: The documentation sucks. If you want to learn how > things work the wiki and the documentation is of little help. You have to > read other code, step through other optimizations and do a lot of > reverse-engineering and co

Re: How to use gcc source and try new optmization techniques

2008-08-21 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
Rohan, Welcome to GCC and I hope you achieve what you want. I would recommend you check our wiki: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki which has some very useful links: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted It is a wiki, so feel free to correct mistakes, improve stuff and add links. If you want to create

Re: [graphite] Get graphite backend working again [scalar variable handling]

2008-08-21 Thread Albert Cohen
Tobias Grosser wrote: > (...) > Why is there a need to name the new ones like the old ones? The only > reason I can think about is debugging. And I am not sure if their exists > a strong relation between old an new ones, that makes it reasonable to > call them identical. During all the code motion,