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Please ask on cfe-dev for more specifics or to +verify that one of these isn't already completed. :)</p> + +<ul> +<li><b>Compile your favorite C/ObjC project with Clang</b>: +Clang's type-checking and code generation is very close to complete (but not bug free!) for C and Objective-C. We appreciate all reports of code that is +rejected or miscompiled by the front-end. If you notice invalid code that is not rejected, or poor diagnostics when code is rejected, that is also very important to us. For make-based projects, +the <a href="get_started.html#driver"><code>clang</code></a> driver works as a drop-in replacement for GCC.</li> + +<li><b>Undefined behavior checking</b>: CodeGen could +insert runtime checks for all sorts of different undefined behaviors, from +reading uninitialized variables, buffer overflows, and many other things. This +checking would be expensive, but the optimizers could eliminate many of the +checks in some cases, and it would be very interesting to test code in this mode +for certain crowds of people. Because the inserted code is coming from clang, +the "abort" message could be very detailed about exactly what went wrong.</li> + +<li><b>Improve target support</b>: The current target interfaces are heavily +stubbed out and need to be implemented fully. See the FIXME's in TargetInfo. +Additionally, the actual target implementations (instances of TargetInfoImpl) +also need to be completed.</li> + +<li><b>Implement an tool to generate code documentation</b>: Clang's +library-based design allows it to be used by a variety of tools that reason +about source code. One great application of Clang would be to build an +auto-documentation system like doxygen that generates code documentation from +source code. The advantage of using Clang for such a tool is that the tool would +use the same preprocessor/parser/ASTs as the compiler itself, giving it a very +rich understanding of the code.</li> + +<li><b>Use clang libraries to implement better versions of existing tools</b>: +Clang is built as a set of libraries, which means that it is possible to +implement capabilities similar to other source language tools, improving them +in various ways. Two examples are <a href="http://distcc.samba.org/">distcc</a> +and the <a href="http://delta.tigris.org/">delta testcase reduction tool</a>. +The former can be improved to scale better and be more efficient. The latter +could also be faster and more efficient at reducing C-family programs if built +on the clang preprocessor.</li> + +<li><b>Use clang libraries to extend Ragel with a JIT</b>: <a +href="http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~thurston/ragel/">Ragel</a> 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.</li> + +<li><b>Self-testing using clang</b>: There are several neat ways to +improve the quality of clang by self-testing. Some examples: +<ul> + <li>Improve the reliability of AST printing and serialization by + ensuring that the AST produced by clang on an input doesn't change + when it is reparsed or unserialized. + + <li>Improve parser reliability and error generation by automatically + or randomly changing the input checking that clang doesn't crash and + that it doesn't generate excessive errors for small input + changes. Manipulating the input at both the text and token levels is + likely to produce interesting test cases. +</ul> +</li> + +<li><b>Continue work on C++ support</b>: Implementing all of C++ is a very big +job, but there are lots of little pieces that can be picked off and implemented. Here are some small- to mid-sized C++ implementation projects: +<ul> + <li>Fix bugs: there are a number of XFAIL'd test cases in Clang's repository (particularly in the CXX subdirectory). Pick a test case and fix Clang to make it work!</li> + <li>Write tests: the CXX test subdirectory in Clang's repository has placeholders for tests of every paragraph in the C++ standard. Pick a paragraph, write a few tests, and see if they work! Even if they don't we'd still like the new tests (with XFAIL'd) so that we know what to fix.</li> + <li>Parsing and semantic analysis for using declarations in classes</li> + <li>Inherited conversion functions</li> + <li>Improved diagnostics for overloading failures and ambiguities</li> + <li>Improved template error messages, e.g., with more informative backtraces</li> +</ul> + +Also, see the <a href="cxx_status.html">C++ status report page</a> to +find out what is missing and what is already at least partially +supported.</li> +</ul> + +<p>If you hit a bug with clang, it is very useful for us if you reduce the code +that demonstrates the problem down to something small. There are many ways to +do this; ask on cfe-dev for advice.</p> + +<li><b>StringRef'ize APIs</b>: A thankless but incredibly useful project is +StringRef'izing (converting to use <tt>llvm::StringRef</tt> instead of <tt>const +char *</tt> or <tt>std::string</tt>) various clang interfaces. This generally +simplifies the code and makes it more efficient.</li> + +<li><b>Universal Driver</b>: Clang is inherently a cross compiler. We would like +to define a new model for cross compilation which provides a great user +experience -- it should be easy to cross compile applications, install support +for new architectures, access different compilers and tools, and be consistent +across different platforms. See the <a href="UniversalDriver.html">Universal +Driver</a> web page for more information.</li> + +</div> +</body> +</html> |