Re: GSoC ideas

2008-03-30 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Ian, On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:28:19PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know it's a bit late, but I just thought that it'd be really nice if GCC > > had a C# frontend. I don't have time to do this myself right now (although > > I'm willing t

wot to do with the Maverick Crunch patches?

2008-03-30 Thread Martin Guy
Ok, so we all have dozens of these EP93xx ARM SoCs on cheap boards, with unusable floating point hardware. What do we have to do to get the best-working GCC support for Maverick Crunch FPU? Suggest: make open-source project with objective:."to get the best-working GCC support for Maverick Crunch

GCC extension proposal (loop unswitching)

2008-03-30 Thread Nils Pipenbrinck
Hi there. I'm a long mailing-list lurker, and I use GCC quite a bit for embedded software development. Most of the stuff I write is performance critical, and I always find myself in the same situation: I spend counter less hours to unswitch loops by hand because the built-in loop unswitcher is

Re: GSoC ideas

2008-03-30 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Robert" == Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> I know it's a bit late, but I just thought that it'd be really Robert> nice if GCC had a C# frontend. FWIW there is an incomplete CIL front end on a branch. See: http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cli.html Based on experience wit

Re: GSoC ideas

2008-03-30 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:47:05AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > > "Robert" == Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robert> I know it's a bit late, but I just thought that it'd be really > Robert> nice if GCC had a C# frontend. > > FWIW there is an incomplete CIL front end on a branch.

Re: GSOC Student application

2008-03-30 Thread J.C. Pizarro
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:39:13 +0600, "Alexey Salmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, here's my application. Please, leave your comments as I still > have two days to fix it if something is wrong :) > > Project > I want to make some improvements in the Lexer/cpplib area: > 1) Change the way of fi

Re: [linux-cirrus] wot to do with the Maverick Crunch patches?

2008-03-30 Thread Brian Austin
As some of you know, Cirrus is now out of the ARM business,. Officially April 1st. (No joke). We still have however arm.cirrus.com. The forum will be locked, but remain for the information in it. The site will remain. I am now doing Linux ALSA/SoC work for our low power audio codecs. I have

Re: GCC extension proposal (loop unswitching)

2008-03-30 Thread Andi Kleen
Nils Pipenbrinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most of the stuff I write is performance critical, and I always find > myself in the same situation: I spend counter less hours to unswitch > loops by hand because the built-in loop unswitcher is not always smart > when multiple variables can be unswi

Re: GSoC ideas

2008-03-30 Thread David Daney
Robert Millan wrote: Hi Ian, On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:28:19PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: However, I think a C# frontend would be too much work for one student during the summer. Do you think it can be broken down? My understanding of compilers is very narrow (although I expect

Re: [linux-cirrus] Re: wot to do with the Maverick Crunch patches?

2008-03-30 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/30/08, Brian Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am now doing Linux ALSA/SoC work for our low power audio codecs. Good luck, look forward to using them... :) > I have been given the freedom with this new > position to allow access to this machine for outside people to > contribute whate

Re: GSOC Student application

2008-03-30 Thread Alexey Salmin
> There are issues of Garbage Collection from libgcc or Boehms's GC > that you possibly can't use another allocators that these defaults, > unless you have control of the manager of the whole memory, > and it's too complex due to the gigant size of the project. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/gcc/src/inclu

Re: Question: How can I upload my work?

2008-03-30 Thread Joe Buck
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:35:18PM +0900, zio wrote: > Dear GCC developers: > > Hi, My name is Jiho Chu. I had ported ZARAM compact DSP16(www.zaram.com) > architecture to the GCC 3.4.5. > I added some machine description files, and modified several source codes in > gcc/ folder. > I think that the

Re: Subject gcc testsuite testcase gcc.c-torture/compile/20010327-1.c

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Kai Tietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This testcase seems to be broken, because it will fail everytime for the > static variable x. gcc detects, that this static variable has no reference > and will produce a warning. gcc.c-torture/compile is compile

Re: GSOC Student application

2008-03-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
There are issues of Garbage Collection from libgcc or Boehms's GC Two mistakes in one line. Congratulations J.C. for confusing a prospective GSoC contributor. So far your messages were just useless and decreasing signal-to-noise ratio. Now you've escalated to actually damaging activity.

Re: wot to do with the Maverick Crunch patches?

2008-03-30 Thread Hasjim Williams
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:45:30 +0100, "Martin Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ok, so we all have dozens of these EP93xx ARM SoCs on cheap boards, > with unusable floating point hardware. > > What do we have to do to get the best-working GCC support for Maverick > Crunch FPU? > > Suggest: make open

Re: [linux-cirrus] Re: wot to do with the Maverick Crunch patches?

2008-03-30 Thread linux-cirrus
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:46:52 +1000, "Hasjim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I don't think glibc compiles/runs if MaverickCrunch is enabled, because > of the lack of support in the glibc-2.5/ports/sysdeps/arm directory. Yep, just tried building it again then... glibc-intermediate fails com