PROJECTS

   1 Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
   2 ---------------------------------
   3 Status: October 1996
   4
   5 If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
   6 contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
   7
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  10 [ 1] Port to new platforms or test current version on formerly supported
  11      platforms.
  12
  13
  14 [ 2] Test compliance with standards.  If you have access to recent
  15      standards (IEEE, ISO, ANSI, X/Open, ...) and/or test suites you
  16      could do some checks as the goal is to be compliant with all
  17      standards if they do not contradict each other.
  18
  19
  20 [ 3] Write translations for the GNU libc message for the so far
  21      unsupported languages.  GNU libc is fully internationalized and
  22      users can immediately benefit from this.
  23
  24      Take a look at the matrix in
  25         ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS
  26      for the current status (of course better use a mirror of prep).
  27
  28
  29 [ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, the
  30      header <wordexp.h> already exists.
  31
  32      Implementation idea: use some functions from bash.
  33
  34
  35 [ 5] Write `long double' versions of the math functions.  This should be
  36      done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people.
  37
  38      The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc).
  39
  40 **** Partly done.  But we need someone with numerical experiences for
  41      the rest.
  42
  43
  44 [ 6] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
  45      be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
  46      Especially the string handling functions can be optimized a lot.
  47
  48      Take a look at
  49
  50         Faster String Functions
  51         Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
  52         Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
  53
  54      or just ask.  Currently mostly i?86 and Alpha optimized versions
  55      exist.  Please ask before working on this to avoid duplicate
  56      work.
  57
  58
  59 [ 7] Write nftw() function.  Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the
  60      ftw() function as well to share most of the code.
  61
  62 **** Almost done!
  63
  64
  65 [ 8] Write AVL-tree based tsearch() et.al. functions.  Currently only
  66      a very simple algorithm is used.
  67      There is a public domain version but using this would cause problems
  68      with the assignment.
  69
  70
  71 [ 9] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters and complete
  72      implementation of character class and collation class handling.
  73
  74      It is planed to do a complete rewrite.
  75
  76
  77 [10] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, and automount
  78      databases for nss_files and nss_db module.
  79      The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme.  This is not
  80      hard and not all services must be supported at once.
  81
  82
  83 [11] Rewrite utmp/wtmp functions to use database functions.  This is much
  84      better than the normal flat file format.
  85
  86      Please contact bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu before starting to avoid
  87      duplicated work.