| From: Louie Ilievski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | My friend and I are seniors at the University of California, | Riverside, and we are trying to find a fun project we can work on for | our senior project. However, this is supposed to be a "compilers" | class, but our professor is open to ideas for our project, as long as it | is somewhat compiler related. More specifically, I imagine he is going | to want to see some scanning and parsing going on in our code at the | very minimum. He definitely considers web pages compiler related, so it | seems he's pretty lenient, and doesn't want us to strictly re-write gcc :-)
Linus Torvalds is working on a program/project called Sparse. It is designed to do static analysis of kernel code. Think of a compliler that generates analyses rather than object code. I would expect that applying Sparse to ivtv would: - discover lots of things that need fixing in ivtv - teach you a lot about static analysis - suggest ways of improving Sparse Static analysis is one of the core foundations for compilers. Much more meaty than parsing. | I know this is being somewhat worked on, but I just thought of the | possibility of getting VBI working with MythTV for the PVR350 and 250 | (or I guess ivtv in general). I believe the VBI code is actually | working in the ivtv driver, but just not in MythTV yet. Am I correct? | I just remembered that an experimental patch just went in on March 1 so | this idea may be scrapped. That seems like quite a stretch from compiler work. Much more like OS work. Do your terms of reference stretch that far? Good luck! ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
