GSOC 2013 ranking rubric for potential projects

2013-03-08 Thread Benjamin De Kosnik
Hey all. I'm getting private email about potential project for Google Summer of Code 2013. This is great, and I'm glad to see interest. Although I've enjoyed mentoring people in the past, I will not be mentoring this year. However, I do plan on reviewing potential GCC/libstdc++ GSOC applicatio

gcc-4.8, summary command line changes

2013-03-13 Thread Benjamin De Kosnik
Hey people. I'm going through the 4.8 release and making notes of changes. Here are all the command line changes, summarized. I'm pleased to see that almost all of the new flags also have documentation. I can't find documentation for two changes (see below), perhaps the listed people can help me

Re: GSoC Proposal

2013-03-21 Thread Benjamin De Kosnik
> I have been told that the Project - "Implement regular expressions in > c++" mentored by Sir Benjamin De Kosnik is not completed and is > available for this year GSoC project also by the the Mentor. Sorry, there still appears to be some confusion here. I am not mentoring G

Re: If you had a month to improve gcc build parallelization, where would you begin?

2013-04-08 Thread Benjamin De Kosnik
> > - Mechanical. Configure scripts cause bottlenecks in the build > > process. Even if compilation is offloaded onto something like > > distcc, configures run locally and randomly throughout the complete > > build, rather than (say) all at once upfront. Source code > > compilation blocks until

Re: Remove the __GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__?

2013-07-05 Thread Benjamin De Kosnik
> Deprecate it for 4.9.x. > Remove it later. We don't need to keep around > this macro which has been obsolete for at least > two releases. Agreed. Definitely deprecated for 4.9. The internal style is to now check __cplusplus and in the future whatever feature testing macros are developed. -be

Re: HTTP header doesn't specify utf-8

2012-07-26 Thread Benjamin De Kosnik
ouch. I had forgotten about this, which is now PR 54102. -benjamin