Re: terminology: zero character vs. null character

2017-03-13 Thread Joseph Myers
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > >> I am currently translating GCC into German. During that, I noticed that > >> in some places the term "zero character" means '\0'. The official term > >> though is "null character", as per the C standa

Re: Target maintainers: doc/install.texi love and care

2017-03-13 Thread Joseph Myers
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > References to dependencies on really, really old versions of > binutils (talking 10+ years here) which I think we can remove. > Let me follow-up with some of you with concrete suggestions > around that. I think we should set a global minimum binutils

Re: Obsolete powerpc*-*-*spe*

2017-03-13 Thread Andrew Jenner
On 21/02/2017 16:14, David Edelsohn wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Olivier Hainque wrote: On Feb 17, 2017, at 01:10 , David Edelsohn wrote: This is not a new issue. The maintainer did not suddenly resign last week. There have been numerous efforts to reach out to the SPE community

[PATCH] RISC-V documentation cleanups

2017-03-13 Thread Palmer Dabbelt
A recent mailing list post about install.texi cleanup suggested I take a look at ours, and there were a few problems: * No table of contents entries * Not alphabetically ordered * Missing a note about requiring binutils-2.28 gcc/ChangeLog: 2017-03-13 Palmer Dabbelt : Add table of contents

Re: Target maintainers: doc/install.texi love and care

2017-03-13 Thread Palmer Dabbelt
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 01:59:28 PDT (-0700), ger...@pfeifer.com wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: >> I looked at our stuff (RISC-V) and there's almost nothing in there. >> Is there something I should add? I looked at the aarch64 stuff in the >> "host/target specific issues start her

Re: Design question LWG 2861: basic_string should require that charT match traits::char_type

2017-03-13 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 13 March 2017 at 11:33, Daniel Krügler wrote: > 2017-03-13 11:56 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Wakely : >> On 12 March 2017 at 13:21, Daniel Krügler wrote: >>> I'm now working on >>> >>> http://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/lwg-defects.html#2861 >>> >>> The new wording state is now equivalent to basic_string_v

RFC: Treat plugins as first class citizens

2017-03-13 Thread Nick Clifton
Hi Guys, I was thinking that it would be nice to make plugins a "first-class citizen" in the gcc world by having a proper directory structure and integration into the rest of gcc. For example: gcc/plugins <-- Everything plugin-y starts here gcc/plugins/Make-lang.in <--

Re: Right way to represent flag-setting arithmetic instructions in MD files

2017-03-13 Thread Segher Boessenkool
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 09:53:11AM +, Kyrill Tkachov wrote: > >combine doesn't try to combine all producer-consumer pairs, only > >producer with first consumer, because it would not often help and > >could easily take much more time. On the other hand I'd love to get > >rid of the LOG_LINKS an

Re: Testsuite breakages on Cygwin

2017-03-13 Thread Daniel Santos
On 03/10/2017 11:23 AM, Joseph Myers wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Daniel Santos wrote: 3. Wouldn't it be better to move this logic up into DejaGnu and restrict gcc to using a black-box interface for modifying the environment? GCC is meant to work with a wide range of different DejaGnu versions.

Re: Design question LWG 2861: basic_string should require that charT match traits::char_type

2017-03-13 Thread Daniel Krügler
2017-03-13 11:56 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Wakely : > On 12 March 2017 at 13:21, Daniel Krügler wrote: >> I'm now working on >> >> http://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/lwg-defects.html#2861 >> >> The new wording state is now equivalent to basic_string_view, whose >> current implementation doesn't bother verify

Re: Design question LWG 2861: basic_string should require that charT match traits::char_type

2017-03-13 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 12 March 2017 at 13:21, Daniel Krügler wrote: > I'm now working on > > http://cplusplus.github.io/LWG/lwg-defects.html#2861 > > The new wording state is now equivalent to basic_string_view, whose > current implementation doesn't bother verifying the requirement, so > this code (which as UB) cur

Re: Right way to represent flag-setting arithmetic instructions in MD files

2017-03-13 Thread Kyrill Tkachov
On 10/03/17 23:56, Segher Boessenkool wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:30:33AM +, Kyrill Tkachov wrote: I'm trying to improve the cases where the result of the arithmetic operation is used in multiple places besides the comparison. For example: add w0, w0, w1 add

Re: Target maintainers: doc/install.texi love and care

2017-03-13 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
Hi Palmer, On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > I looked at our stuff (RISC-V) and there's almost nothing in there. > Is there something I should add? I looked at the aarch64 stuff in the > "host/target specific issues start here" section and there's some notes > about binutils-2.24.

Re: PATCH for Re: Release notes for GCC 7?

2017-03-13 Thread Richard Biener
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Richard Biener wrote: >> We've been creating those lazily over the last decade. We can change >> that, an entry for releasing.html is appreciated then so we don't forget. > > And here we go, in time for the release of