Hi Michael, Just last week I've embarked on a project to fix Rust's debug info emitter (it's been broken ever since last LLVM version update because of change in debug metadata format). I've made some progress, but new code still doesn't have all the features that old code used to have.
I was going to look into adding support for traits, enums etc after that, but since you can work on this full time, I'd love to hand this part over to you. When are you starting? Vadim On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Michael Wörister < michaelwoeris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I wanted to quickly introduce myself here. My name is Michael Woerister > and I was accepted for Rust's Google Summer of Code project this year, > regarding debug symbol generation for rustc. > > I've been following the Rust project for a while now and I'm really proud > that I can be a part of it. Rust already is a beautiful language and I hope > to be able to use it a lot in the future. It's great to get this > opportunity of contributing some to its progress! > > A bit about the project: > Debugger support for Rust is very rudimentary at the moment. LLVM allows > for producing debug symbols during code generation but for this to work the > LLVM IR has to be annotated correctly with metadata. Some of this is > already implemented in "librustc/middle/trans/debuginfo.rs" but quite a > few things are still missing. At the same time the language is still > evolving and like other parts of the compiler the debug symbol code has to > keep up. Also new LLVM versions come with their needs for adaption. > > My task over the summer will be to extend the code in debuginfo.rs to > also handle things like enums, traits, and closures, and just as important, > write more unit tests so the 5 lonely files in test/debug-info get some > company. The goal is that at the end of summer we will be able to debug > rustc itself with gdb. > > I will post my weekly project updates to my github page: > http://michaelwoerister.github.io (nothing there yet) > > I am grateful for any advice or comments. Also, I want to thank my 'GSoC > mentor' Josh Matthews who has been nothing but helpful so far :-) > > Cheers, > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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