Re: summer-of-code Digest, Vol 50, Issue 7

[Darshit Shah]

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Raghav Pande
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> i always considered windbg, debug, ollydbg (windows) to be better than gdb.
> might be i am wrong since too many people use gbd. so i don't think i'll be
> working on gdb for windows
> however it can be done.
>
> can you elaborate more on threading models?
> i didn't quite get what you meant, simply because i have only used pthreads
> on *nix environments.
> while windows has native api's like NtCreateThread to do that.
>
>
> Regards
> Raghav Pande
>
>
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>> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:45:27 +0530
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>> Hi,
>> I am an undergrad Computer Science student.
>> My interests include programming, reverse engineering.
>> So far i have looked up ideas list in gnu, gdb, wget, libc, gnu net.
>> These projects are interesting enough for me to work on them, and i have
>> had past experience in programming under windows. Though the learning
>> curve
>> won't be steep, i still have got no clue as to which project i should work
>> upon.
>> Can anyone point me to right direction?
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>> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:10:38 +0400
>> From: LRN <address@hidden>
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>> On 14.03.2014 1:15, Raghav Pande wrote:
>> > Hi, I am an undergrad Computer Science student. My interests
>> > include programming, reverse engineering. So far i have looked up
>> > ideas list in gnu, gdb, wget, libc, gnu net. These projects are
>> > interesting enough for me to work on them, and i have had past
>> > experience in programming under windows. Though the learning curve
>> > won't be steep, i still have got no clue as to which project i
>> > should work upon. Can anyone point me to right direction?
>> >
>> I'm assuming you familiarized yourself with GSoC GNUnet 2014 ideas
>> list[1].
>>
>> GNUnet development would entail:
>> A) Network application programming (the "Social applications" idea)
>> B) Network protocol programming (the "Multicast" idea)
>> C) Network protocol/application programming + package manager
>> integration (the "Guix + GNUnet" idea).
>>
>> There's been some discussion of (C) on GNUnet-developers mailing
>> list[2], you can get further insights from that thread.
>>
>> You are unlikely to deal with sockets and other network stuff directly
>> (there are utility functions for that), the focus will likely be more
>> on correctly laying out distributed/networked applications logic.
>>
>> You can do development on any OS. Experience in W32 programming is not
>> required (W32 compatibility layer is already in place, it is unlikely
>> that you'll have to expand it), but wouldn't hurc, obviously.
>>
>> You'll need to know bare C (GNUnet utility library provides some
>> convenience functions, but not many, so knowledge of standard libc
>> functionality is important; unless you work on an app that can be more
>> free in its dependencies (i.e. can use glib, for example)).
>>
>> Reverse engineering is not going to be required (at least for the
>> projects mentioned on the ideas page; you may be able to come up with
>> something different, obviously).
>>
>>
>> As for gdb, libc, etc, i'll let other projects' developers speak for
>> themselves. That said, it'll be simply awesome for someone to take a
>> stab at gdb on Windows (there are lots of improvements that could be
>> made there, such as better stack unwinding, support for MS debug info
>> format - and that would require reverse engineering!). There's also a
>> possibility to teach gcc to use Windows threading model in order to
>> provide C11/C++ threading support without relying on winpthreads
>> compatibility layer (that layer comes under MIT license that some
>> weirdos find too restrictive). Just some things off the top of my head.
>>
>> [1] https://gnunet.org/gsoc2014
>> [2]
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2014-03/threads.html
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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah