[cfe-dev] Open Projects Description : "Use clang libraries to extend Ragel with a JIT" and "StringRef'ize APIs"

[aditya jain]

It would be very helpful if someone could elaborate the statements of these
projects.

Thanks
Aditya


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:11 AM, aditya jain <2003adityajain at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is reference to the following open projects associated with Clang (
> http://clang.llvm.org/OpenProjects.html) :
>
> 1. *Use clang libraries to extend Ragel with a JIT*: Ragel<http://research.cs.queensu.ca/%7Ethurston/ragel/>is a state machine compiler that lets you embed C code into state machines
> and generate C code. It would be relatively easy to turn this into a JIT
> compiler using LLVM.
>
> 2. *StringRef'ize APIs*: A thankless but incredibly useful project is
> StringRef'izing (converting to use llvm::StringRef instead of const char *or
> std::string) various clang interfaces. This generally simplifies the code
> and makes it more efficient.
>
> I would like to know a bit more about the specifications of the
> requirements of these projects and about their current statuses (open or
> not) . I would be highly obliged if someone could throw some light on the
> problem statements.
>
> Thanks
> Aditya
>
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