From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/885 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Vision for new platform Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:59:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20120521205913.GJ163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20120518010620.GW163@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1a3e425d701b0f04869636b9ef89d638@exys.org> <4FBAAAC7.7090408@gmail.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337634282 6192 80.91.229.3 (21 May 2012 21:04:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 21:04:42 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-886-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon May 21 23:04:41 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWZmJ-00015g-DF for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 23:04:31 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 18042 invoked by uid 550); 21 May 2012 21:04:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 18030 invoked from network); 21 May 2012 21:04:30 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FBAAAC7.7090408@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:885 Archived-At: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 01:51:19PM -0700, nwmcsween wrote: > I am also working on something similar but less ambitious - I want > to reuse what's out there but based on code quality. I plan on using > llvm, musl, compiler-rt, libc++, mclinker, toybox and a few required I hope I didn't make it sound like nothing could be reused. The vision I was describing doesn't involve replacing these components of the system (although I *would* like to write a compiler, if I had the background), just the FDO junk. > covers mainly code quality based on analysis. There's also a whole > whack of other ideas I have such as using LSH for hashing source (to > find similar bad sections of code as well as categorizing packages), > using git, svn, etc to keep with upstream, allow hackability and > maybe even bisection across an entire dependency graph. Nice! Rich