[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Marco van de Voort]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 05:17:29PM +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> >> Then you don't want to use any of the many C libraries, out there? Like 
> >> lex, yacc, regexp, zip, SVN...
> > 
> > We can already statically link to C code, so what exactly is the point?
> > True, header converting is pain, but a blessing compared with the amount of
> > work to maintain a fullblown C compiler.
> 
> What extra work do you mean?
> 
> A compiler front-end translates the source code into an internal format, 
> from which the back-end generates the executable code.

The frontend, and making sure the generated code meets targets, survives
testsuites, complies to standard (e.g. aliassing rules)
 
> > Moreover it would be a feeble shade of a compiler to compile a handful of
> > libs only, and you get tons of maintenance work in return. All the C parsing
> > and implementation oddities, GCC compatibility issues, tools preparation
> > ( autoconf etc), libraries etc.
> 
> The ToPas C preprocessor and parser has been tested for MSVC and gcc 
> compatibility.

Parsing compatibility I assume. So it eats everything that could turn up in
a gcc header? It eats the entire /usr/include on Linux?