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<h1>Open Clang Projects</h1>
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<p>Here are a few tasks that are available for newcomers to work on, depending
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on what your interests are. This list is provided to generate ideas, it is not
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intended to be comprehensive. Please ask on cfe-dev for more specifics or to
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verify that one of these isn't already completed. :)</p>
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<li><b>Compile your favorite C/ObjC project with Clang</b>:
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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
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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,
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the <a href="get_started.html#driver"><code>clang</code></a> driver works as a drop-in replacement for GCC.</li>
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<li><b>Undefined behavior checking</b>: CodeGen could
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insert runtime checks for all sorts of different undefined behaviors, from
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reading uninitialized variables, buffer overflows, and many other things. This
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checking would be expensive, but the optimizers could eliminate many of the
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checks in some cases, and it would be very interesting to test code in this mode
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for certain crowds of people. Because the inserted code is coming from clang,
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the "abort" message could be very detailed about exactly what went wrong.</li>
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<li><b>Improve target support</b>: The current target interfaces are heavily
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stubbed out and need to be implemented fully. See the FIXME's in TargetInfo.
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Additionally, the actual target implementations (instances of TargetInfoImpl)
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also need to be completed.</li>
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<li><b>Implement an tool to generate code documentation</b>: Clang's
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library-based design allows it to be used by a variety of tools that reason
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about source code. One great application of Clang would be to build an
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auto-documentation system like doxygen that generates code documentation from
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source code. The advantage of using Clang for such a tool is that the tool would
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use the same preprocessor/parser/ASTs as the compiler itself, giving it a very
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rich understanding of the code.</li>
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<li><b>Use clang libraries to implement better versions of existing tools</b>:
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Clang is built as a set of libraries, which means that it is possible to
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implement capabilities similar to other source language tools, improving them
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in various ways. Two examples are <a href="http://distcc.samba.org/">distcc</a>
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and the <a href="http://delta.tigris.org/">delta testcase reduction tool</a>.
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The former can be improved to scale better and be more efficient. The latter
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could also be faster and more efficient at reducing C-family programs if built
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on the clang preprocessor.</li>
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<li><b>Use clang libraries to extend Ragel with a JIT</b>: <a
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href="http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~thurston/ragel/">Ragel</a> is a state
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machine compiler that lets you embed C code into state machines and generate
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C code. It would be relatively easy to turn this into a JIT compiler using
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LLVM.</li>
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<li><b>Self-testing using clang</b>: There are several neat ways to
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improve the quality of clang by self-testing. Some examples:
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<ul>
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<li>Improve the reliability of AST printing and serialization by
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ensuring that the AST produced by clang on an input doesn't change
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when it is reparsed or unserialized.
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<li>Improve parser reliability and error generation by automatically
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or randomly changing the input checking that clang doesn't crash and
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that it doesn't generate excessive errors for small input
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changes. Manipulating the input at both the text and token levels is
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likely to produce interesting test cases.
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><b>Continue work on C++ support</b>: Implementing all of C++ is a very big
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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:
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<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>
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<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>
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<li>Parsing and semantic analysis for using declarations in classes</li>
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<li>Inherited conversion functions</li>
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<li>Improved diagnostics for overloading failures and ambiguities</li>
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<li>Improved template error messages, e.g., with more informative backtraces</li>
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</ul>
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Also, see the <a href="cxx_status.html">C++ status report page</a> to
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find out what is missing and what is already at least partially
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supported.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If you hit a bug with clang, it is very useful for us if you reduce the code
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that demonstrates the problem down to something small. There are many ways to
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do this; ask on cfe-dev for advice.</p>
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