On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 10:27 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
That said, Clang needs our help. Collectively, Boost developers have more knowledge about and a deeper understanding of C++ than any other community within C++. We have the C++ expertise to help implement the language well, and the library-design savvy to help build powerful, accessible interfaces that simplify the task of building new and improved tools for C++. The Clang team is asking for help implementing C and C++ features and are very open to new contributors.
Is there a list of tasks somewhere? If someone wants to help, where can they find something to do?
The best place to get these answers is on the Clang mailing list at: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
I note the LLVM website says "a GCC-based C & C++ front-end." I assume that is *not* what we're talking about here?
No, that is not what we're talking about. LLVM can be used as a back-end for GCC's C and C++ parsers, but that involves a lot of cruft from GCC. Clang is a new, from-scratch, all-C++ parser that will be an alternative LLVM front end for C and C++. - Doug