llvm dev - Mar 2008 - [LLVMdev] Proposal for a Google summer of code project for the Java frontend.

As I told you, I am working with the Java frontend. Currently I am
working with the code from http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/. The
first task has been to put it up to date, since it was written for
LLVM 1.9 and there are few incompatibilities. This is mostly done. How
can I submit a patch?

I am interested to get this work funded by a Google summer of code
grant. Is there anyone interested in mentoring this project? Would be
the LLVM interested in it?

Best regards,

Ramon

Hi Ramon,

Ramón García wrote:
> I am interested to get this work funded by a Google summer of code
> grant. Is there anyone interested in mentoring this project? Would be
> the LLVM interested in it?
>   
I'm in the process of checking in a Java and a CLI FE to the llvm 
repository. I'm not sure what's the shape of llvm-java. Do your changes 
make it run some applications?

Is the grant already provided? I'd be happy to mentor your work if the 
project can also concern improving my existing implementation ;-)

Nicolas
> Best regards,
>
> Ramon
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On Mar 17, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Nicolas Geoffray wrote:
> Hi Ramon,
> Ramón García wrote:
>> I am interested to get this work funded by a Google summer of code
>> grant. Is there anyone interested in mentoring this project? Would be
>> the LLVM interested in it?
>>
>
> I'm in the process of checking in a Java and a CLI FE to the llvm
> repository. I'm not sure what's the shape of llvm-java. Do your  
> changes
> make it run some applications?
>
> Is the grant already provided? I'd be happy to mentor your work if the
> project can also concern improving my existing implementation ;-)
The GSoC project has not really started yet, we haven't started  
accepting applicants.  I think it would be a great thing to focus  
future java efforts on your front-end, provided it's in better shape  
than llvm-java (which isn't hard).  It would be awesome if you were  
willing to mentor a student.  Please sign up on the GSoC page as a  
mentor, thanks!

-Chris

I would like to see the code of your front end.

I started working with llvm-java, since it was what was available. It
does not run yet (small compilation issues, almost done),
but the design seems fine. It can run (when setup complete) small
pieces of Java code, but no real application, since it does
not support exception handling (jsr/ret bytecodes) yet,nor garbage
collection. Implementing these pieces would be the purpose
of this summer grant request.

A Java and CLI front end would be really interesting. What missing
features could I implement? I can start preparing a proposal.

Ramon

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Nicolas Geoffray
<nicolas.geoffray at lip6.fr> wrote:
>  I'm in the process of checking in a Java and a CLI FE to the llvm
>  repository. I'm not sure what's the shape of llvm-java. Do your
changes
>  make it run some applications?
>
>  Is the grant already provided? I'd be happy to mentor your work if the
>  project can also concern improving my existing implementation ;-)
>