Hello,
I would like to apply for 60% of my work time if there is funding for it.
These are the projects that I would like to push (in no particular order):
- Simplify scalarizer API and usage,
- Create internal APIs (basically split gfortran.h and/or trans.h to
different pieces) and add unit testing for them,
- Move code from class.cc to a trans-class.cc and get rid of the class
artifacts around the class descriptor and vtable in the whole frontend.
- Defer all work done at parsing time to resolution time, so that the
parser's job reduces to just recognizing and recording statements,
- Avoid simplifying intrinsics before checking they are valid,
- Improve module loading (there is PR98426, possibly a few others),
- Array descriptor reform (does it still apply?).
The above are, I think, long and/or difficult, and a bit unrewarding as
they have virtually no user-visible impact, and it's unlikely to get
funding for them. But maybe we could apply for a package project
including user-visible changes and less visible ones.
The projects proposed by Paul all seem worth pursuing. If there is only
one, my vote goes for fixing the PDTs.
Cheers.
Mikael
