Re: libstdc++ developing

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>]

Marek Zuk <marekzuk@gmail.com> writes:

| Hi,
| 
| I'm in my final year of my studies(MSc) at the Faculty of Mathematics
| & Computer Science at the Warsaw University of Technology and I'm
| working on  my final project.
| In my project I'm going to develop libstdc++. The the subject of my
| project is: "Enhancing associative containers (map, multimap, set and
| multiset) in STL with the possibility of choosing the way of their
| implmentation".
| 
| Now associative containers in STL are implemented by use of red-black
| trees. What I want to do, is to enable the choice of implementation of
| these containers by adding one parameter to the templates, so that the
| containers could by be built by use of  b-trees, just vectors or
| others structures.
| 
| I'm relatively new to the compiling process of GCC, so I have questions:
| 1. How to make changes in libstdc++ and how to test these changes in
| the easiest way?
| Yesterday I sent a similar e-mail to gcc-help list, but I didn't get a
| satisfying answer, so I'm asking once again.

    http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html
    http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html
    http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/

| 2. Is it possible to apply my changes to libstdc++, if they are
| succesful? What is the process of applying such changes to the GNU C++
| standard library? Who could I consult with about my ideas of
| development the libstdc++?

libstdc++ is primary focused on implementing the ISO C++ standard
library specification.  

If your contributions enhances the library within that scope, then
please make sure you have copyroght assignment on file and contribute
your patches according to the guidelines above.

| 
| Thanks in advance
| 
| Marek Zuk

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