On Fri, Jan 19 2018, Martin Jambor wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 18 2018, Martin Liška wrote: >> On 01/17/2018 06:54 PM, Martin Jambor wrote: >> > ... >>> >>> 2) Martin Liška is willing to mentor either: >>> 2a) -fsanitize=type (He provided URL https://reviews.llvm.org/D32197 >>> but it gives me a 404 error) or its prototype, or >>> 2b) bash code completion like: >>> >>> http://blog.llvm.org/2017/09/clang-bash-better-auto-completion-is.html >>> but frankly I am afraid it is too small to be a GSoC project, or >>> 2c) textual representation of LTO stream a.k.a. lto-dump tool >> >> If there's an interest, I can specify in more detail these topics. > > First, we'll need (just) enough info to make the idea attractive for > students. Then they will need to write a project proposal with > milestones and stuff > (https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal). I am > not sure how involved we will be at that point, but perhaps it is a good > idea to think about milestones anyway. > >> Note that >> David Malcolm is also interested in 2b) and he's willing to be co-mentor. >> The topic 2b) can be enlarged to an overhaul of option handling, with >> possible >> rewritten of current AWK scripts. > > I am still a bit sceptical about the b option. IIRC there was an > objection on the IRC that rewriting AWK scripts would require extensive > testing in a wide variety of often obscure environments. That may make > it ill-suited for GSoC. But well... I am not strictly against it, but > we may need to set the expectations accordingly ...which may not make it > attractive neither for students not for Google. >
Ah no, I confused myself. That was Joseph's issue with the idea of replacing libiberty with gnulib. The problem with this one was getting a consensus to move away from AWK to python which would introduce a new dependency of the gcc project. Someone experienced (and determined) from the community would have to drive that decision, we may not expect a newcomer, let a alone a student, to do it. Sorry for the confusion, Martin
