Re: GSoC (Making C++ concepts conform to the current standard)

[Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>]

Hello Maria,

On Wed, Mar 14 2018, Maria Kalikas wrote:
> Hello anyone this concerns,
>
> My name is Maria Kalikas and I am a senior majoring in Computer Science at
> The University of Akron.
>
> My familiarity and continuous reading of the C++ Standard has encouraged me
> to extend the previously developed support for concepts in GCC. I want to
> modify the implementation to conform with the current specification in the
> C++ Standard. I am curious to know if this would be a good project to
> propose for Google Summer of Code and am interested in finding a mentor.

I personally do not know what the status of C++ concept implementation
is, how much it differs from the current standard is or whether making
it more up to date would make a good GSoC project.  Jason, Nathan, what
do you think?  (And if so, would you be willing to be a mentor?  Can you
think of someone else?)

Martin

>
>  I took a Compiler Design course in Spring 2017 where I designed a compiler
> for a C-like programming language. My implementation is written in C++.
> Since completing the course, I became familiar with Clang and LLVM and am
> currently completing a capstone project where I am creating a virtual
> machine to implement the C++ abstract machine using LLVM instructions and
> rewriting the conversions, expressions and declarations specified in the
> C++ Standard as three address code instructions.
>
> I look forward to any responses and feedback.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maria Kalikas