Request for code review - (ZEE patch : Redundant Zero extension elimination)

2009-08-08 Thread Sriraman Tallam
Hi, Here is a patch to eliminate redundant zero-extension instructions on x86_64. Tested: Ran the gcc regresssion testsuite on x86_64-linux and verified that the results are the same with/without this patch. Problem Description : - This pass is intended to b

Re: Compiler for gcc

2009-08-08 Thread Michael Hope
Hi Harshal. I'm no expert, but GCC can be built by another C compiler. If you have a look at how GCC builds you'll see that it goes through a few stages - the first is where the local C compiler builds a first version of GCC, and then this new version of GCC is used to build itself. The same tec

odcctools-2009-08-08

2009-08-08 Thread Peter O'Gorman
hope the sources for the new projects that are required to build the ld64/cctools for Mac OS X 10.6 are also made available when that is released). The tarball is available here (yes, it is just checked in to svn): http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/odcctools/release/odcctools-200

Re: gcc git's performance problem Fwd: git gc expanding packed data?

2009-08-08 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > > Nicolas wrote: > >> Anyone has an idea of the git version running on gcc.gnu.org?  It is >> certainly buggy and needs fixing. > > It was 1.6.3.2 now it's 1.6.4, practically spring chickens. > >> Anyway... To solve your problem, you

Compiler for gcc

2009-08-08 Thread Harshal Jain
As we know gcc is used 2 compile c programs n also gcc is used 2 compile linux kernels also bt i wanted 2 know who is d compiler of gcc? means in which programming language compiler for gcc is written??? -- Regards , Harshal Jain “UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplici

How to link a static lib when build a shared lib ?

2009-08-08 Thread Andy
Hi all, I got that, glibc can support SHA in crypt lib since v2.7. There is a requirement in my application to use SHA, but update the whole glibc is too risky. So I want to build a specific crypt lib for the module using crypt function in my application. Now the calling graph seems like this, fr

Re: i370 port

2009-08-08 Thread Paul Edwards
I then found out that even with old versions of the machine definition, I can have the warning removed by simply not defining CONST_INT in the PREDICATE_CODES, even though it is allowed when the function is called. ie it seems to have no effect on the code generation, but succeeds in eliminating