Re: GSoC proposal for extending static analyzer

[Mir Immad <mirimnan017@gmail.com>]

I've updated the link on the repo -- https://mirimmad.github.io/zeta-lang.

> You don't give many specifics in your personal decription.  One thing
> I'm not seeing is a sense of how proficient you are in various
> programming languages.  In particular, how is your C and C++?  How
> familiar are you with the debugger?  Looking at your github, you seem
> to have relevant experience in compilers, which is great, but all your
> code appears to be with "managed" languages such as Ruby, Java, and
> Python  [and Zeta :)].

 I'm pretty comfortable with both C and C++ and manual mem management .
Unfortunately, I don't have any project in C/C++ to show. Maybe I can use
the time before May 20 to write something in cpp?
About the debugger, I'm okay-ish with it. In fact, it was due to the
debugger (and your blog on it) that I was initially able to walk through
the codebase.


> That said, I got
> the sense from your previous emails that you're not very familiar with
> the APIs, and that you chose them because that was the suggestion I had
> made on the wiki page.

thats right.


>  Obviously it's something you can learn on the
>  way, but it would be better to accurately identify which areas you're
> going need to learn along the way, and the timetable and scope should
> reflect that.

If I understand the statement correctly; currently I'm thinking of
extending the support for open() (for creating the fd), write/read (for
working on the fd) and close(). This is quite analogous to what we have in
sm-file. Please let me know how do you want the analyzer to be extended and
if you expect support for any other FD APIs  too as I understand there are
many other APIs for creating and working wiith FDs?

Thank you.



On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 9:35 PM David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 19:58 +0530, Mir Immad wrote:
> > I've submitted a proposal for extending the static analyzer to support
> > posix fd APIs on GSoC website. Here is the Google docs link (gdocs
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/188zxPUsuYcF-uGVYL_G1s2RVtHhJSZeQ4sha40H7374/edit?usp=sharing
> > >).
> >
> >
> > Please take a look and let me know what you think.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> Thanks.
>
> FWIW, I'm getting an error when trying the URL given in your github
> repo: http://mirimmad.me/
> but https://mirimmad.github.io/ seems to work  - but it's almost empty.
>
> You don't give many specifics in your personal decription.  One thing
> I'm not seeing is a sense of how proficient you are in various
> programming languages.  In particular, how is your C and C++?  How
> familiar are you with the debugger?  Looking at your github, you seem
> to have relevant experience in compilers, which is great, but all your
> code appears to be with "managed" languages such as Ruby, Java, and
> Python  [and Zeta :)].
>
> Also, the proposal is to extend the analyzer to cover a specific
> domain: various POSIX APIs.  Can you please give a sense of your level
> of expertise with these APIs?  I was pleased at your initiative in
> trying to reuse the existing code to work with them.  That said, I got
> the sense from your previous emails that you're not very familiar with
> the APIs, and that you chose them because that was the suggestion I had
> made on the wiki page.  Obviously it's something you can learn on the
> way, but it would be better to accurately identify which areas you're
> going need to learn along the way, and the timetable and scope should
> reflect that.
>
> Hope this is constructive
> Dave
>
>
>