Need help in deciding GSoC project also want to know project Scope

[Prateek Pardeshi]

Hi Gedare,

---- On Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:19:26 +0530 Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote ----

 > Hi Prateek, 
 >  
 > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:31 PM Prateek Pardeshi <prateekp99 at zoho.com> wrote: 
 > > 
 > > Hi everyone, 
 > > I have decided following projects to work on this Summer. Please let me know about the scope of the project, whether it's feasible to work during GSoC. 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 1. https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Projects/Open/UsingClang
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 2. Ticket 4182: https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/4182 
 > > 
 > > Reason for choosing projects with LLVM: 
 > > I worked as a fellow under Dr.Michael Kruse, maintainer of LLVM Compiler(Polly), also I am contributor at LLVM Compiler, specifically Polly, which is a loop optimiser written in C language. I'm familiar with the LLVM community and the working/debugging/building/issues of LLVM compiler. 
 > > Recently I worked on refabricating reference-counting used for memory management to C++ binding. 
 > > This project will provide me an opportunity to work on something new while contributing to the Open Source. 
 > > 
 > Super, and welcome. We now have a much-revised build system that 
 > should be better able to work with llvm. There are scattered efforts 
 > that have shown how to compile RTEMS with clang for a couple of 
 > targets (sparc, riscv), and it would be a great effort to try to unify 
 > the support and integrate to our development tools. 
 >  
 > We have a Python-based tool (RTEMS Source Builder (RSB)) for building 
 > host/cross compiler toolchains (and orchestrating other builds): 
 > https://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/ 
 >  
 > Our documentation on the build system and RSB are fairly robust, and 
 > may be a good place for you to start building some knowledge: 
 > https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/rsb/index.html 
 > https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/bld/index.html 
 >  
 > We can probably get input from people who have managed to build a 
 > clang toolchain. I have run clang-analyzer over RTEMS as well in the 
 > past. It should be a good time now to get the llvm/clang 
 > infrastructure well-integrated to our development ecosystem. 

Thanks for your response. Is this idea appropriate enough to work during GSoC or should I start exploring other Projects?


 > > Looking forward to hear! 
 > > 
 > > Thanks & Regards, 
 > > Prateek Pardeshi 
 > > 
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