[cfe-dev] Getting started on getting started

[Douglas Gregor]

On Nov 14, 2011, at 2:01 AM, Matthew Abbott wrote:

> Not to step on Benjamin's toes, but I'm also looking to contribute to Clang, so I'd definitely appreciate a few project ideas that would be good starts for newbies. I've been walking through the code/documentation for the past few days, roughly trying to follow process order, but since that's probably not necessarily the best way to do things, I'd wouldn't mind a shove in the right direction.

I generally suggest that you take a look at quality-of-implementation bugs in Bugzilla (http://llvm.org/bugs/), because you can often learn a lot and make a difference just by improving diagnostics or error recovery (e.g., for common mistakes).

	- Doug

> Matthew Abbott
> 
> 
> On 13 Nov 2011, at 22:50 , Benjamin Schulz wrote:
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>> Hey all,
>> 
>> I'm looking to get involved contributing to Clang.  As a starting point,
>> I was hoping to find a relatively small and simple project that would
>> give me the opportunity to get familiar with the code.
>> 
>> Under these constraints, one possibility that popped out at me from the
>> documents online was the need to change some of the interfaces to use
>> llvm::StringRef instead of plain strings.  Would this be a good place to
>> start?  Would anyone familiar with the code recommend something
>> different?  Other than what's in the documents up on the official site,
>> are there any other considerations I should be aware of as I try to get
>> up to speed?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any guidance.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> - --Benjamin Schulz
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