[LLVMdev] Open work items with a small scope

[Dmitri Gribenko]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Julian Lettner <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)?

If you can choose a frontend-related project, then you might want to
consider implementing a refactoring tool.  A few ideas are listed
here:

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangTools.html

Dmitri

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