Re: setcontext et al. functions (was: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.)

2013-06-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Schwinge, le Tue 11 Jun 2013 10:27:09 +0200, a écrit : > Anyway, Samuel, would you please > put the current »tg patch t/context_functions« as a new patch into the > Debian glibc package? Yep, it is done, waiting for next upload. Samuel

setcontext et al. functions (was: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.)

2013-06-11 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Wed, 15 May 2013 16:04:02 +0200, I wrote: > As for the roadblock: > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Thomas Schwinge > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On I have ju

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-05-27 Thread Fotis Koutoulakis
Greetings! The results are finally out, and it appears that my project proposal has been accepted for the GCC! I would like to thank you all that contributed in one way or another. Special thanks go to both Ian Lance Taylor and Thomas Schwinge for accepting the proposal, taking the time to mentor

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-05-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Fotis Koutoulakis wrote: > > Last but not least, I would like to know if you have some other proposition > for me. Mr Ian could have a suggestion for the go part perhaps? Make sure you can build and modify gccgo for some other target, e.g., GNU/Linux. I don't eve

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-05-17 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! One suggestion up-front: I think the GCC mailing lists (or generally all hosted on sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org) are configured to drop HTML email, so you may want to adjust your MUA. On Fri, 17 May 2013 00:19:17 +0300, Fotis Koutoulakis wrote: > > Replacing the (legacy) threadvars > > mecha

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-05-16 Thread Fotis Koutoulakis
Hello Thomas, First of all, I would like to thank you for your feedback. It means a lot to me. > Replacing the (legacy) threadvars > mechanism with TLS shall not really be your project; yours is to port Go > (or more specifically, its runtime library) to GNU Hurd. I do understand this, but if yo

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-05-15 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! On Fri, 3 May 2013 21:23:49 +0300, Fotis Koutoulakis wrote: > A link to it can be found here: > https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/nlightnfotis/1 > (I > hope it is publicly visible, it seems to me it is). > > Of course, I am more than open to comments/cr

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-05-03 Thread Fotis Koutoulakis
Hello! First of all I would like to thank you everyone for your input. I really appreciate it. I would also like you to know that I managed to study the material that you all have linked to (or that is generally available online on the project's wikis of that matter) and I managed to come up with

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-05-03 Thread Svante Signell
Hi Fotis, I finally found my changes made so far for gccgo on a computer suffering double hard disk crashes. Hopefully most of the changes are available on the backup I found. As it looks they were not too extensive. I'll send a patch asap to the bug-hurd list, so you can continue from there (when

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-04-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On I have just > updated/posted a getcontext/makecontext/setcontext/swapcontext usage > analysis. This might constitute a "road block": the Hurd currently does > not allow for cha

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-04-30 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! I'm sorry for the late answer. Ian, there's a question for you towards the bottom of the email. On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:22:15 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Fotis Koutoulakis > wrote: > > > > I am writing this email with regard to a potential project idea

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-03-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ian Lance Taylor, le Mon 25 Mar 2013 08:22:15 -0700, a écrit : > > - What would be a skill level estimate for someone wishing to try this > > project in an attempt to get his feet wet in compiler engineering? > > Unfortunately it's hard for me to judge. The most important skill > would be the abi

Re: Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-03-25 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Fotis Koutoulakis wrote: > > I am writing this email with regard to a potential project idea that's > hosted on the GCC wiki about porting the go programming language GCC > (gccgo) frontend to the GNU/HURD operating system (information found > here-> http://gcc.gnu

Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea

2013-03-25 Thread Fotis Koutoulakis
Greetings, I am writing this email with regard to a potential project idea that's hosted on the GCC *wiki about porting the go programming language GCC (gccgo) frontend* *to the GNU/HURD operating system (located here and here

Inquiry about GCC Summer Of Code project idea.

2013-03-25 Thread Fotis Koutoulakis
Greetings, I am writing this email with regard to a potential project idea that's hosted on the GCC wiki about porting the go programming language GCC (gccgo) frontend to the GNU/HURD operating system (information found here-> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode and here-> http://www.gnu.org/soft