Contributing to glibc

[Bogdan Blidarescu]

Hello,

This is what I have found so far:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4421/Henry-Spencer-s-Regexp-Engine-Revisited

ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/Awkstuff/

Cheers!

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Rogelio Serrano
<rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Bogdan Blidarescu
> <bogdan.blidarescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We would like to contribute to the glibc library. Looking at the
>> PROJECTS file, this sounds interesting:
>>
>>
>>> [ 8] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
>>>      be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
>>>      Especially the string handling functions can be optimized a lot.
>>>      Take a look at
>>> Faster String Functions
>>> Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
>>> Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
>
> Where can we find examples of the techniques described in the paper
> above? I can not find a copy anywhere and I would like to study and
> implement them.
>
> <snipped...>
>
> Thanks!