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* timezone/asia: Update from tzdata2004e. * timezone/southamerica: Likewise. * timezone/private.h: Update from tzcode2004e. * timezone/zdump.c: Likewise.
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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
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Status: October 2004
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If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
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contact <bug-glibc@gnu.org>.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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[ 1] Port to new platforms or test current version on formerly supported
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platforms.
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**** See http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/porting.html for more details.
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[ 2] Test compliance with standards. If you have access to recent
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standards (IEEE, ISO, ANSI, X/Open, ...) and/or test suites you
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could do some checks as the goal is to be compliant with all
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standards if they do not contradict each other.
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[ 3] The IMHO opinion most important task is to write a more complete
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test suite. We cannot get too many people working on this. It is
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not difficult to write a test, find a definition of the function
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which I normally can provide, if necessary, and start writing tests
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to test for compliance. Beside this, take a look at the sources
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and write tests which in total test as many paths of execution as
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possible.
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[ 4] Write translations for the GNU libc message for the so far
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unsupported languages. GNU libc is fully internationalized and
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users can immediately benefit from this.
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Take a look at the matrix in
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ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS
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for the current status (of course better use a mirror of ftp.gnu.org).
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[ 8] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
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be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
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Especially the string handling functions can be optimized a lot.
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Take a look at
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Faster String Functions
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Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
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Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
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or just ask. Currently mostly i?86 and Alpha optimized versions
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exist. Please ask before working on this to avoid duplicate
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work.
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[11] Write access function for netmasks, bootparams, and automount
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databases for nss_files, nss_nis, and nss_nisplus modules.
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The functions should be embedded in the nss scheme. This is not
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hard and not all services must be supported at once.
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[15] Cleaning up the header files. Ideally, each header style should
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follow the "good examples". Each variable and function should have
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a short description of the function and its parameters. The prototypes
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should always contain variable names which can help to identify their
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meaning; better than
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int foo (int, int, int, int);
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Blargh!
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*** The conformtest.pl tool helps cleaning the namespace. As far as
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known the prototypes all contain parameter names. But maybe some
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comments can be improved.
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[18] Based on the sprof program we need tools to analyze the output. The
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result should be a link map which specifies in which order the .o
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files are placed in the shared object. This should help to improve
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code locality and result in a smaller footprint (in code and data
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memory) since less pages are only used in small parts.
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[19] A user-level STREAMS implementation should be available if the
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kernel does not provide the support.
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*** This is a much lower priority job now that STREAMS are optional in
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XPG.
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[20] More conversion modules for iconv(3). Existing modules should be
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extended to do things like transliteration if this is wanted.
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For often used conversion a direct conversion function should be
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available.
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[23] The `strptime' function needs to be completed. This includes among
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other things that it must get teached about timezones. The solution
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envisioned is to extract the timezones from the ADO timezone
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specifications. Special care must be given names which are used
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multiple times. Here the precedence should (probably) be according
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to the geograhical distance. E.g., the timezone EST should be
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treated as the `Eastern Australia Time' instead of the US `Eastern
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Standard Time' if the current TZ variable is set to, say,
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Australia/Canberra or if the current locale is en_AU.
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[27] ...deleted...
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