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.

2013-05-15 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 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