[LLVMdev] 3.4.1 Release Plans

Tom Stellard tom at stellard.net
Thu Apr 3 08:03:58 PDT 2014


Hi David,

I haven't seen any response from code owners about these patches.
Maybe it would help to send an email with different subjects to
both llvm-commits and cfe-commits and cc the code owners again.

Thanks,
Tom

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:19:38PM -0400, David Fang wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>  	Thanks for doing this.  I would like to nominate the following 
> patches to be backported to release_34 (3.4.1).
> 
> LLVM:
> r196168, r196970 -- .weak_definition vs. .weak_def_can_be_hidden
>  	(r196168 is Rafael's, 970 is mine)
> r196987, r197572, r197574 -- [ABI] f64,i64 alignment on ppc-darwin
>  	all Rafael's, 196987 is a cosmetic change that made it easier
>  	to apply the others.
> r198744 [Iain Sandoe] -- FDE cross-section relocs for EH
> 
> https://github.com/fangism/llvm/tree/powerpc-darwin8-rel-3.4
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Clang:
> r197577 [Rafael] -- f64 alignment ppc-darwin struct layout
> r196981 [me] -- suppress -Q for legacy system assembler
> 
> https://github.com/fangism/clang/tree/powerpc-darwin8-rel-3.4
> 
> 
> I have already been testing and packaging with these patches, which live 
> on my 'powerpc-darwin8-rel-3.4' branch (tracks release_34), which were 
> included in my own port of release-3.4.  My testing of that branch
> covers powerpc-darwin8/9, i386-darwin10, x86_64-darwin11 (even though it 
> is named powerpc-darwin8).  As 3.4.1 approaches, I will re-merge this 
> branch for testing.
> 
> I am also currently using powerpc-darwin8-rel-3.4 as my bootstrapping 
> C++11 compiler for llvm/clang trunk (3.5).
> 
> 
> Iain and I are aware of more powerpc-darwin8 ABI issues that have not yet 
> been fixed in trunk.  (Some patches exist, but not yet posted.)  As things 
> stand now, the release I've made comes with this warning that 
> powerpc-darwin ABI fixes are still to come, so ABI 'breakage' by 'fixing' 
> is to be expected.
> 
> Your darwin-legacy co-maintainer,
> 
> David
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are now about halfway between the 3.4 and 3.5 releases, and I would
> > like to start preparing for a 3.4.1 release.  Here is my proposed release
> > schedule:
> >
> > Mar 26 - April 9: Identify and backport additional bug fixes to the 3.4 branch.
> > April 9 - April 18: Testing Phase
> > April 18: 3.4.1 Release
> >
> > How you can help:
> >
> > - If you have any bug fixes you think should be included to 3.4.1, send
> >  me an email with the SVN revision in trunk and also cc the code owner
> >  and llvm-commits (or cfe-commits if it is a clang patch).
> >
> > - Start integrating the 3.4 branch into your project or OS distribution
> >  to and check for any issues.
> >
> > - Volunteer as a tester for the testing phase.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Tom
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> 
> -- 
> David Fang
> http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/
> 



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