Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
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-Status: August 1997
+Status: October 2004
If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
-contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
+contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
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users can immediately benefit from this.
Take a look at the matrix in
- ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS
- for the current status (of course better use a mirror of prep).
-
-
-[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions. This should be
- done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people.
-
- The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc).
-
-**** Partly done. But we need someone with numerical experiences for
- the rest.
-
-
-[ 7] Several math functions have to be written:
-
- - exp2
-
- each with float, double, and long double arguments.
-
- Beside this most of the complex math functions which are new in
- ISO C 9X should be improved. Writing some of them in assembler is
- useful to exploit the parallelism which often is available.
+ ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS
+ for the current status (of course better use a mirror of ftp.gnu.org).
[ 8] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
work.
-[10] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters and complete
- implementation of character class and collation class handling.
-
- It is planed to do a complete rewrite.
-
-
[11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, and automount
- databases for nss_files and nss_db module.
+ databases for nss_files, nss_nis, and nss_nisplus modules.
The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme. This is not
hard and not all services must be supported at once.
-[13] Several more or less small functions have to be written:
-
- + tcgetid() and waitid() from XPG4.2
- + grantpt(), ptsname(), unlockpt() from XPG4.2
-
- More information is available on request.
-
-
-[14] We need to write a library for on-the-fly transformation of streams
- of text. In fact, this would be a recode-library (you know, GNU recode).
- This is needed in several places in the GNU libc and I already have
- rather concrete plans but so far no possibility to start this.
-
-
[15] Cleaning up the header files. Ideally, each header style should
follow the "good examples". Each variable and function should have
a short description of the function and its parameters. The prototypes
should always contain variable names which can help to identify their
meaning; better than
- int foo __P ((int, int, int, int));
+ int foo (int, int, int, int);
Blargh!
+
+*** The conformtest.pl tool helps cleaning the namespace. As far as
+ known the prototypes all contain parameter names. But maybe some
+ comments can be improved.
+
+
+[18] Based on the sprof program we need tools to analyze the output. The
+ result should be a link map which specifies in which order the .o
+ files are placed in the shared object. This should help to improve
+ code locality and result in a smaller footprint (in code and data
+ memory) since less pages are only used in small parts.
+
+
+[19] A user-level STREAMS implementation should be available if the
+ kernel does not provide the support.
+
+*** This is a much lower priority job now that STREAMS are optional in
+ XPG.
+
+
+[20] More conversion modules for iconv(3). Existing modules should be
+ extended to do things like transliteration if this is wanted.
+ For often used conversion a direct conversion function should be
+ available.
+
+
+[23] The `strptime' function needs to be completed. This includes among
+ other things that it must get teached about timezones. The solution
+ envisioned is to extract the timezones from the ADO timezone
+ specifications. Special care must be given names which are used
+ multiple times. Here the precedence should (probably) be according
+ to the geograhical distance. E.g., the timezone EST should be
+ treated as the `Eastern Australia Time' instead of the US `Eastern
+ Standard Time' if the current TZ variable is set to, say,
+ Australia/Canberra or if the current locale is en_AU.
+
+
+[27] ...deleted...
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