[cfe-dev] Hello everybody and first question

[Nicola Gigante]

Hello everybody.

I'm new to the list, I've subscribed because I'm looking at the clang source code for fun and learning.

First of all, congratulations, it's a great work!

In my opinion, the best thing to do to learn how clang internals work is to do something concrete, so I've read the TODO file and I saw there are a few jobs that seems simple enough. For example, I read:

More ideas for code modification hints:
  - If no member of a given name is found in a class/struct, search through the names of entities that do exist in the class and suggest the closest candidate. e.g., if I write "DS.setTypeSpecType", it would suggest "DS.SetTypeSpecType" (edit distance = 1).
... others...
  - Change "foo.bar" to "foo->bar" when "foo" is a pointer.

First of all, is the TODO file up-to-date? Then.. Which part of the source code should I look to fix these two points?

Another thing. In the case I could end up with a working patch, how does the clang contribution policy work? Do I have to send the patches to this list, or to someone in particular?

Thank you very much,

Nicola