From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4646 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 2004 12:58:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 4630 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2004 12:58:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Sep 2004 12:58:36 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C521z-00078h-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:58:35 +0200 Received: from inet-netcache2-o.oracle.com ([148.87.1.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:58:35 +0200 Received: from rmathew by inet-netcache2-o.oracle.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:58:35 +0200 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org From: Ranjit Mathew Subject: Re: newsletter #10 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:58:00 -0000 Message-ID: <413F01A5.6060004@gmail.com> References: <1094646058.14103.1.camel@chronos.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: inet-netcache2-o.oracle.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 In-Reply-To: <1094646058.14103.1.camel@chronos.inria.fr> X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00357.txt.bz2 Mathieu Lacage wrote: > Work on new optimization passes for gcc has not stalled despite the > tentative release schedule. Revital Eres sent a new version of his > Variable Exansion Optiomization[10] pass. ^^^----------^--- Typos. IMHO, also important additions were Stack Slot Coalescing: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg00333.html and Loop Interchanging (on the LNO branch only though): http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg00162.html And an inordinate amount of time was also spent on discussing the need to have Ada tested by default due to GNAT version incompatibilities. Jan Hubicka has been hunting memory leaks and trying to rein in memory usage. Nathan Sidwell has been gcc_assert()-ifying the code base. An unusual amount of bootstrap breakage on various platforms... Daniel Berlin has set up a GCC Wiki at http://dberlin.org/gccwiki/ ... Et cetera. Ranjit. -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT gmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.tripod.com/