I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
Python 2 does not have a FileNotFoundError so drop it in favour of
simply printing out the last (and most informative) line of the
exception.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py: Import traceback.
(parse_file): Pretty-print error.
On x86-64, there may be multiple IFUNC implementations for a given
function. But we may be only interested in a subset of them. This
patch adds -f/--functions argument to compare a subset of IFUNC
implementations.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py (process_results): Add
funcs argument. Compare only functions which are selected.
(main): Check if base function is among selected functions.
Pass selected functions to process_results.
(__main__): Add -f/--functions argument.
Catch runtime exceptions in case the user provided: wrong base
function, attribute(s) or input file. In any of the latter, quit
immediately with non-zero return code.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_string.py: (process_results) Catch
exception in non-existent base_func and catch exception in
non-existent attribute.
(parse_file) Catch exception in non-existent input file.
Having a string comparison report with neither diff numbers nor header
yields a more useful output to be consumed by other tools.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_string.py: Add --no-diff and --no-header
options to avoid diff calculation and omit header, respectively.
(main): process --no-diff and --no-header
The compare_strings.py option unconditionally generates a graph PNG
image of the input data, which can be unnecessary and slow. Put this
behind an optional flag -g.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py: New option -g.
(draw_graph): Print a message that a graph is being generated.
(process_results): Generate graph only if -g is passed.
(main): Process option -g.
Make the column widths for the outputs fixed so that they look a
little less messy. They will still look bad with lots of IFUNCs (like
on x86) but it's still a step forward.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py (process_results):
Better spacing for output.
Make the script more usable by adding proper command line options
along with a way to query the options. The script is capable of doing
a bunch of things right now like choosing a base for comparison,
choosing to generate graphs, etc. and they should be accessible via
command line switches.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py: Use argparse.
* benchtests/README: Document existence of compare_strings.py.
The compare_strings.py script generates a graph for the benchmarks it
performs a comparison on and that fails if X is not available. Avoid
the error and ensure that only the graph is generated and saved as a
PNG file.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py: Avoid display error
when generating graph.
This patch allows one to provide the function name using an optional
-base option to compare all other functions against. This is useful
when pitching one implementation of a string function against
alternatives. In the absence of this option, comparisons are done
against the first ifunc in the list.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py (main): Add an
optional -base option.
(process_results): New argument base_func.
Read the memcpy results in json and print out the results in tabular
form, in addition to generating a graph of the results to compare all
of the implementations.
The format of the output is extensible enough to allow this kind of
analysis to be done on other string functions as well.
* benchtests/scripts/benchout_strings.schema.json: New file.
* benchtests/scripts/compare_strings.py: New file.
