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Re: Getting involved in newlib development
- From: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan at cms dot com>
- To: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>
- Cc: newlib at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 12:14:06 +0530
- Subject: Re: Getting involved in newlib development
- References: <1243573899.2164.4.camel@system> <4A202936.3050507@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: vibi_sreenivasan at cms dot com
hi,
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 14:28 -0400, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> vibi sreenivasan wrote:
> > hi,
> > how to get involved in newlib development?
> > Is there any todo jobs that in can start working
> > with?
> > regards
> > vibi sreenivasan
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Vibi,
>
> There is no official todo list.
>
> There are pushes underway to add more POSIX and C99-compliance to newlib
> as exemplified
> by the work Corinna has done recently in the wide-character I/O and
> locale fields. There is work regarding the UTF-8 standard used. Craig
> Howland is currently working on cleaning up the system header files.
> There is work underway to add long double math functions and there is
> also lowering the footprint of empty programs or programs that don't do
> much, especially on platforms that are tight for space.
>
> You might want to read the list archives to see what has been done in
> these areas recently.
> Perhaps some of these areas would interest you.
Thanks for replying
Thanks & regards
vibi sreenivasan
>
> -- Jeff J.
>
>