<div dir="ltr">Hello Community,<div><br></div><div>I have been recently talking to Lang hames about OrcJIT and new Error Handling mechanism called Error ( a.k.a TypedError ). I hope the patch will be in upstream repo by 23 May, 2016. So we have figured out a task for GSoC 2016 and we need your suggestion for the same.</div><div><br></div><div>The task is to design and implement Error class hierarchy for ELF in libObject and thus avail benefits of TypedError to provide more rich diagnostics to the clients. I have read and understand the discussion going on RFC for TypedError and there are lots of benefits that helps users of the particular library. For example one benefit "<font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Difficult to drop" that makes user aware of the error and forces to handle it. Similarly other benefits can help to understand the error better. </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">So there is already a plan for integrating this features for MachO. I would like to work on ELF side. Roughly the work will involve identifying different class of errors and buid their hierarchy and also how to improve the error with supplying information from the context. Then implementing the design and replacing old error mechanism. I am still reading more details about this. If this work is not sufficient for 3 moths of time than I can add implementing diagnostic Errors for OrcJIT API's (as I have been experimenting with then currently) the similar work flow would be there. You may also suggest additional work on similar path.</span></font></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So I have some questions for this idea:</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">1) Is this a good idea for a GSoC project ?</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">2) If any one is available to mentor me for this ?</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">3) How important this is for LLVM ?</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">and any other suggestions are welcomed. As application period has already begun I need to be little quick but I think I would be able to build a good proposal if provided enough guidance. </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">A special thanks to Lang Hames for suggesting this topic.</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div>Sincerely,<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i><font size="2" face="monospace, monospace"><b>Vivek Pandya</b></font></i><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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