Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?

2010-07-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
"Darryl L. Miles" writes: > So my next question is what support is there in the various formats, > technologies and runtime libraries to provide a backwards compatible > solution, such that a binary from one system when put on another can > have any hardware incompatibilities detected at the soon

Re: struct tree_type

2010-07-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
BLUE 3TOO writes: > Can somebody quickly explain what the bit fields are for? thanks > > unsigned int precision : 10; > unsigned no_force_blk_flag : 1; > unsigned needs_constructing_flag : 1; > unsigned transparent_aggr_flag : 1; > unsigned restrict_flag : 1; > unsigned contain

Re: GCC Bugzilla is broken now

2010-07-13 Thread Jie Zhang
On 07/13/2010 11:13 AM, Jie Zhang wrote: I got this when trying to access http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44921 Software error: Can't rename data/versioncache.Xg5KN to versioncache at globals.pl line 306. For help, please send mail to the webmaster (sourcemas...@sourceware.org), g

Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?

2010-07-13 Thread Rainer Orth
Ian Lance Taylor writes: > Unfortunately, as far as I know, no such solution was ever adopted for > the x86 family. So this does not help your immediate problem, and will > not help it until somebody implements such an approach for x86. The Sun assembler, linker, and runtime linker implement th

Re: Deprecating ARM FPA support (was: ARM Neon Tests Failing on non-Neon Target)

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Brook
> However, although no one currently sells FPA hardware, it is widely > supported as the only floating point model emulated by the Linux > kernel, and people have to use it when compiling stuff to run on OABI > systems, which include boards currently on the market based on ARMv4 > (no t) such as th

Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?

2010-07-13 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Rainer Orth writes: > Ian Lance Taylor writes: > >> Unfortunately, as far as I know, no such solution was ever adopted for >> the x86 family. So this does not help your immediate problem, and will >> not help it until somebody implements such an approach for x86. > > The Sun assembler, linker,

Re: How to pass a pathlist in RUNTESTFLAGS?

2010-07-13 Thread IainS
On 9 Jul 2010, at 17:28, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: RUNTESTFLAGS="CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=--sysroot=/path/to/somewhere --target_board=unix/-foo/-bar" Please, once you find out, add this info to http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Testing_GCC done (and amended the sim. section to refer to the second simulato

GNU's inventation to PAGE

2010-07-13 Thread tajiya1
Good morning GNU, I'm launching a new network of indie game development called PAGE (the full name is not to be released until opening date), which will assist independent game developers gain clients and earn real profits (you will benefit even as a non profit organization), along with having acc

Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?

2010-07-13 Thread H.J. Lu
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Rainer Orth writes: > >> Ian Lance Taylor writes: >> >>> Unfortunately, as far as I know, no such solution was ever adopted for >>> the x86 family.  So this does not help your immediate problem, and will >>> not help it until somebody im

Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?

2010-07-13 Thread H.J. Lu
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:39 AM, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> Rainer Orth writes: >> >>> Ian Lance Taylor writes: >>> Unfortunately, as far as I know, no such solution was ever adopted for the x86 family.  So this does not help your imme

Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?

2010-07-13 Thread Rainer Orth
"H.J. Lu" writes: > On x86, it is OK for binary to have ISAs beyond the base ISA > as long as proper ISA check is used before the new ISA code is > entered. However, we should have a way to mark the base ISA. That's what the Sun assembler does by default. If you need to override its findings if

Re: Compilation time in gcc-4.4.0

2010-07-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 07/08/2010 10:58 PM, Maxiwell Garcia wrote: Hi, I am writing a paper about instruction-set architecture simulators. In first time, I used gcc-4.4.0 and the compilation time reached 33 minutes (with -O3) for my simulator and the performance reached 270 MIPS (Million instruction per second). Wh

Re: Compilation time in gcc-4.4.0

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Guenther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 07/08/2010 10:58 PM, Maxiwell Garcia wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am writing a paper about instruction-set architecture simulators. In >> first time, I used gcc-4.4.0 and the compilation time reached 33 >> minutes (with -O3) for my simulator a

GTY variable_size & documentation

2010-07-13 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
Hello, in the trunk's documentation http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/GTY-Options.html I am reading: > variable_size > The type machinery expects the types to be of constant size. > When this is not true, for example, with structs that have > array fields or unions, th

Re: How to pass a pathlist in RUNTESTFLAGS?

2010-07-13 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 13 July 2010 14:47, IainS wrote: > > On 9 Jul 2010, at 17:28, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > >>> RUNTESTFLAGS="CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET=--sysroot=/path/to/somewhere >>> --target_board=unix/-foo/-bar" >>> >> >> Please, once you find out, add this info to >> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Testing_GCC > > done (a

Re: GNU/Linux ABI documentation ? GCC supports SSSE3 in general purpose code generation ?

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Brook
> Ian Lance Taylor writes: > > Unfortunately, as far as I know, no such solution was ever adopted for > > the x86 family. So this does not help your immediate problem, and will > > not help it until somebody implements such an approach for x86. > > The Sun assembler, linker, and runtime linker i

Re: struct tree_type

2010-07-13 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
On 13 July 2010 11:09, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > BLUE 3TOO writes: > >>      Can somebody quickly explain what the bit fields are for? thanks >> >>   unsigned int precision : 10; >>   unsigned no_force_blk_flag : 1; >>   unsigned needs_constructing_flag : 1; >>   unsigned transparent_aggr_flag :

Re: Compilation time in gcc-4.4.0

2010-07-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 07/13/2010 04:53 PM, Richard Guenther wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 07/08/2010 10:58 PM, Maxiwell Garcia wrote: Hi, I am writing a paper about instruction-set architecture simulators. In first time, I used gcc-4.4.0 and the compilation time reached 33 min

Re: Compilation time in gcc-4.4.0

2010-07-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 07/13/2010 04:53 PM, Richard Guenther wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 07/08/2010 10:58 PM, Maxiwell Garcia wrote: Hi, I am writing a paper about instruction-set architecture simulators. In first time, I used gcc-4.4.0 and the compilation time reached 33 min

Re: Compilation time in gcc-4.4.0

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Guenther
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 07/13/2010 04:53 PM, Richard Guenther wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini  wrote: >>> >>> On 07/08/2010 10:58 PM, Maxiwell Garcia wrote: Hi, I am writing a paper about instruction-set architectur

gcc-4.4-20100713 is now available

2010-07-13 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.4-20100713 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.4-20100713/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.4 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches

Re: m4 requirement (was: prerequisites page)

2010-07-13 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Jul 10, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Todd, > > On Wed, 19 May 2010, Todd Rinaldo wrote: >> I'm writing to report a discrepancy in >> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html >> >> I just discovered that if gmp is boot strapped during gcc build and an >> older m4 exists, w

Re: m4 requirement

2010-07-13 Thread DJ Delorie
I think I've seen this one, it's something like this: GNU flex calls M4 when you run flex. GMP disables M4 and runs flex; flex then tries to run m4-not-used (or whatever it's called) instead of m4.

Ask for copyright assignment forms for gcc

2010-07-13 Thread Eric Fisher
Hello, It will be appreciated if anyone could help send me the copyright assignment forms. I need them to submit patches to gcc. I think it should be an assignment for all future changes. Thanks Eric

Re: GTY variable_size & documentation

2010-07-13 Thread Laurynas Biveinis
Hi, 2010/7/13 Basile Starynkevitch : >  The type machinery then provides allocators that take a parameter indicating > an exact size of object being allocated (like malloc does) > > and the exemple should better be > > >  Then the objects of struct sorted_fields_type are allocated in GC memory as