Getting involved in newlib development

vibi sreenivasan vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com
Tue Jun 2 07:10:00 GMT 2009


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.
> 
> 




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