[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Open work items with a small scope

[Vane, Edwin]

If you're interested in a refactoring tool then clang-modernize might be up your alley. There's a nice list of small things to whet your appetite at http://cpp11-migrate.atlassian.net/. You're completely free to build your own transform that we haven't thought of yet though. There are lots of ideas out there and if you're keen on the C++ language and its new features it would probably be a lot of fun.

From: cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Andrey Bokhanko
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 8:30 AM
To: Julian Lettner
Cc: cfe-dev; LLVM Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Open work items with a small scope

Hi Julian,
> Some areas/ideas we are especially interested in:
> Adaption of Clang to support OpenMP (http://clang-omp.github.io/), but haven't been able to contact one of the developers yet.

This project is owned by my team, and we certainly welcome contributions! Have you tried to contact us via https://github.com/clang-omp/clang/issues ?
Either way, it is really hard to find a short-term "new development" work for your team in OpenMP -- as the implementation is more or less already finished. Yes, it can benefit from some refactoring here and there, but I doubt this is what you are looking for.

One area still missing, though, is capturing variables with variable-length array type. There is a similar question (is it posted by one of you?) and more elaborate answer: https://github.com/clang-omp/clang/issues/12

Yours,
Andrey Bokhanko
=============
Software Engineer
Intel Compiler Team

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Julian Lettner <julian.lettner at uci.edu<mailto:julian.lettner at uci.edu>> wrote:
Dear Clang/LLVM community!

We (a group of 3 highly motivated CS grad students) are taking a class about compilers and optimizations.
This class offers the option of doing a implementation project (instead of reading/writing x papers) for its main part.
Of course hacking is much more fun than ... ;)

So my question is do you know of any open points, compiler passes, optimizations in the LLVM / Clang realm that are small enough for a student group to be tackled in a quarter (~2 months)?
We acknowledge that compilers are very complex software and that it is very hard to do anything meaningful in this timeframe.
So we would appreciate any guidance you can offer.
This could also mean doing work in a LLVM / Clang related project, as LLVM / Clang themselves are pretty mature projects and doing anything substantial would probably take much longer.
The only requirement of the project would be that it is in the realm of compilers and optimizations.

Some areas/ideas we are especially interested in:
Adaption of Clang to support OpenMP (http://clang-omp.github.io/), but haven't been able to contact one of the developers yet.

Profile-guided optimization:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2XFuOkR2K-Oao4u5fR3a9Ok83IB_W4EJWVmNak4GRE/pub

We are glad for any pointers, suggestions and other help.
Also feel free to answer me directly if you like.
-- Julian

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