Hi everyone, My name is Vivek Prakash and I am an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. I have an interest in userland applications and system programming. Earlier I have worked on porting some parts of NetBSD userland to Minix.
I am excited to work on HelenOS as part of GSoC 2012. I will be working on porting C compiler part of GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) over the summer. This project is a major step towards the goal for HelenOS in becoming self-hosting. This project will also include porting some external libraries e.g. libgmp, libmpfr, libmpc and many internal libraries that come with gcc-core. I will improve libposix along the way and add missing functions and complete skeleton files and stubs. One of the major goal while writing shell scripts and Makefile for building gcc using cross-compilation techniques would be to refactor the corresponding binutils code too and group the related code and techniques at one place. This will help in porting other similar foreign sources in future. To know more about the project, please refer to [0] and [1]. I also hope to complete the port of C compiler part of gcc as soon as possible and then move on to porting GNU Make. I was busy with exams lately and will be so for another few days. I plan to start working full time on the project from 18th May. Before that I will create a wiki page for the project which will contain progress and challenges faced and other miscellaneous information related to the project. I will push my code on launchpad at lp:~vivek-cs-iitr/helenos/gcc for this project. I will also post frequent status report on the mailing list. Any suggestions are very welcome! I think this will be a fun summer with much activity. I am looking forward to it. I also thank the HelenOS team for showing confidence in me for this project. Thanks, Vivek Prakash [0] http://trac.helenos.org/ticket/413 [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/vivekp/36002
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