Dear GCC Team,
A bit of a procedural question. Do applications/projects for glibc
apply here to GCC? There are a few core functions I would like to add to
the library, that I think would be beneficial. Would a proposal for that be
welcome to GCC, or is it headed by a different organization?
Sincerely,
JeanHeyd Meneide
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:55 PM David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-02-06 at 20:58 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 16:30 +0100, Martin Liška wrote:
> > > On 1/15/20 11:45 PM, Martin Jambor wrote:
> > > > Therefore, first and foremost, I would like to ask all
> > > > (moderately)
> > > > seasoned GCC contributors to consider mentoring a student this
> > > > year
> > > > and
> > > > ideally also come up with a project that they would like to
> > > > lead. I'm
> > > > collecting proposal on our wiki page
> > >
> > > @David would you be interested in a analyzer topics? Seems to me
> > > ideal for newcomers to come up with a static analyzer check?
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what the appropriate size of a project would be,
> > but
> > I'd be happy to mentor a student. Some ideas I had for analyzer
> > topics:
> >
> > * Generalize double-free checker to attribute-marking of
> > acquire/release API entrypoints so that the user can mark the
> > entrypoints and get a checker for that API "for free".
> >
> > * Checking of the POSIX file-descriptor APIs (int rather than FILE
> > *),
> > or some other POSIX API that we're not yet checking.
> >
> > * Maybe add plugin support, and write a plugin to add a project
> > specific-checker for a project of interest to the student (Linux
> > kernel?)
> >
> > * C++ support (new/delete checking, exceptions, etc)
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > Dave
>
> I've taken the liberty of adding the above idea to the list of
> "Selected Project Ideas for 2020" on
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode
> with me as mentor.
>
> Dave
>
>
