Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-10-02 Thread Andi Kleen
> To make the above work first the external tools have to add the > capabilities, just implementing it in GCC doesn't work for us. Ok, but there's more to building software, than just building rpms. For example I can definitely see a common use case where a program is built with line number and

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-10-02 Thread Richard Guenther
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Joe Buck wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 05:00:10PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Richard Guenther writes: > > > > > > The wish for more granular and thus smaller debug information (things like > > > -gfunction-arguments which would properly show parameter values > > > for bac

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-10-01 Thread Joe Buck
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 05:00:10PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Richard Guenther writes: > > > > The wish for more granular and thus smaller debug information (things like > > -gfunction-arguments which would properly show parameter values > > for backtraces) was brought up. We agree that this shou

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-10-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Richard Guenther writes: > > The wish for more granular and thus smaller debug information (things like > -gfunction-arguments which would properly show parameter values > for backtraces) was brought up. We agree that this should be addressed at a > tools level, like in strip, not in the compiler

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-09-25 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Richard Guenther wrote: > Is -combine widely used? IIRC it has a lot of known issues and > is basically unmaintained. Maybe if we deprecate -combine for 4.5 > we'll get feedback if it is used. I have used it quite a bit, but now most often I just use a single source file full of #include statem

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-09-24 Thread Richard Guenther
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Richard Guenther wrote: > > > We discussed about features we don't like (PCH and -combine). PCH > > is used but has the issue that improper use is not diagnosed and PCH > > seems to be unmaintained. We agreed on deprecating -com

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-09-24 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Richard Guenther wrote: > We discussed about features we don't like (PCH and -combine). PCH > is used but has the issue that improper use is not diagnosed and PCH > seems to be unmaintained. We agreed on deprecating -combine for 4.5 > though. Can we map -combine to use LTO

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-09-24 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Richard Guenther wrote: > The regular problem of emitting warnings for unreachable code may > be addressed by using a new variant of debug statements. Those > would queue up warnings and if still around emit them during > expansion. Currently queueing a warning can be done w

Re: Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-09-24 Thread Jeff Law
On 09/24/09 04:35, Richard Guenther wrote:. . It was also suggested to change hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 to ia64-hpux and to change s390-linux-gnu to s390x-linux-gnu in the list of secondary targets. No argument from me re: hppa moving to secondary status. IIRC, HP has stopped selling new PA sy

Prague GCC folks meeting summary report

2009-09-24 Thread Richard Guenther
Present: Jakub Jelinek, Jan Hubicka, Martin Jambor, Michael Matz, Paolo Bonzini, Petr Baudis, Richard Guenther Not present but invited: Andreas Schwab, Zdenek Dvorak The objective of this meeting was to have a discussion about the development of GCC (and dependent tools and libraries) in