Re: Question about past research in detecting compiler used to create executable binary

2008-01-23 Thread Tim Josling
0ubuntu4) If this is a reverse engineering project, your adversary will probably have stripped as much of this kind of thing as possible though. Tim Josling

Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain

2008-02-23 Thread Tim Josling
y to maintain them on a weekly basis or so. Alternatively I could update the ChangeLog files themselves but I have reason to suspect that may not be popular. If nothing else happens I will keep it up-to-date for my own use. Tim Josling On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 08:05 -0500, Richard Kenner wrote: >

Getting host and target size and alignment information at build time?

2008-04-11 Thread Tim Josling
also the foreign function interface overheads. Tim Josling /* -*- C -*- */ /* Copyright ... FILE Generate target-info file, - data item attributes for target time. Output goes to standard output. */ #include #include #include #define IN_GCC #include "tconfig.h" #include "sys

Re: Getting host and target size and alignment information at build time?

2008-04-11 Thread Tim Josling
y different processes. Still if that's how GCC operates I will need to find some way to deal with it. Maybe a cut down libgccbackend that doesn't generate code, it just gives me the information I want. Tim Josling

Re: Getting host and target size and alignment information at build time?

2008-04-12 Thread Tim Josling
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 17:05 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:59:28AM +1000, Tim Josling wrote: > > > Why not get it out of GCC later? You don't need to hack up GCC to do > > > that. > That's not what I meant. You don't need it

Re: Getting host and target size and alignment information at build time?

2008-04-16 Thread Tim Josling
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 18:16 +1000, Tim Josling wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 17:05 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:59:28AM +1000, Tim Josling wrote: > > > > Why not get it out of GCC later? You don't need to hack up GCC to do > > >

Some questions about writing a front end

2008-04-16 Thread Tim Josling
just a question of which format to convert into. Thank you all for any help you can provide, Tim Josling

Re: [tuples] New requirement for new patches

2008-04-17 Thread Tim Josling
base insn-attrtab.c -mtune=generic -auxbase-strip insn-attrtab.o -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -Werror -Wno-return-type -Wno-format -Wno-missing-format-attribu

Re: Some questions about writing a front end

2008-04-30 Thread Tim Josling
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 10:24 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Tim Josling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 5. What is deprecated: Is there any time-effective way to identify > > constructs, header files, macros, variable and functions that are > > "deprecated".

Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Josling
tandards, it is a positive change and no information is being lost. It would be interesting to ask someone who was around at the time why the guidelines were written as they were. They rationale may no longer be relevant. Tim Josling

Re: [RFC] WHOPR - A whole program optimizer framework for GCC

2007-12-12 Thread Tim Josling
s, which may be easier to get than source code. Tim Josling

Re: [RFC] WHOPR - A whole program optimizer framework for GCC

2007-12-19 Thread Tim Josling
GCC front end I want to have as little code as possible in the same process as the GCC back end. This means passing over a file. So I would like to understand how to avoid getting into political/legal trouble when doing this. Thanks, Tim Josling

Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

2007-12-25 Thread Tim Josling
my experience, when documentation is not stored with the source code, it often gets lost. When a person is offline the mailing list htmls are not available. I have an idea to resolve this that I am working on... more in due course if it comes to anything. Tim Josling