Re: Google Summer of Code projects for the GNU C Library.

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>]

... and I forgot to add David to the conversation.  Doing that now.

Siddhesh

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 08:48:08AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 07:14:45PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > If anyone has any more project ideas they think a student can
> > work on please suggest them here. Keep in mind that the idea
> > has to be simple enough for a student to implement in a very
> > limited time.
> 
> David Malcolm and I had this discussion at the Cauldron last year -
> pretty-printing support for various structures in glibc.  This
> discussion came up on list too and I believe there was consensus[1] on
> hosting this code within the glibc source tree.
> 
> We could start with getting a student to merge the gdb-heap[2] code that
> David had written (with David's permission of course).  Other than
> that, there are a bunch of information (off the top of my head) that
> could use pretty-printers:
> 
> - FILE struct
> - struct pthread
> - dynamic linker data
> - TLS data
> - thread stack information
> 
> Siddhesh
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-10/msg00921.html
> [2] https://fedorahosted.org/gdb-heap/

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