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Re: [URGENT] Ideas for Google Summer of Code
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>, GDB Development <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 09:55:42 +0000
- Subject: Re: [URGENT] Ideas for Google Summer of Code
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On 02/20/2014 07:31 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Thanks for doing that, Sergio!
>
>> - ARI revamp. This is a personal itch. I'd like to improve ARI so that
>> it is more useful to us. I will about some paragraph to describe this
>> task.
>
> What would be really useful is if we could run it as a commit hook
> locally :).
Or even before commit -- it would be nice if it were super easy
to run the ari at any time. Something like "make check-ari".
On the subject, the Linux kernel has this checkpatch.pl script
that automates checking a patch for common issues. Porting that
(or rewrite something along those lines) for GNU/GDB would be
super neat, I think.
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/checkpatch.pl
http://omappedia.org/wiki/Releasing_to_Linux_kernel_using_patches_and_emails#Checking_tools
--
Pedro Alves