Argument-free ABI-agnostic wrappers
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- C
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Description
Many tools want to do simple wrappers which don't care about the arguments of the functions being wrapped. Caring about arguments is a source of ABI problems. Gotcha should support as a configuration option the creation of such wrappers rather than the current argument-requiring ones. A common use case would be MPI wrappers.
Issue originally reported by @jmellorcrummey , who can feel free to tell me if we got anything wrong from those requirements, or if there's anything else we'd need to support
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Research direction
Start by reading GOTCHA's existing configuration for argument-requiring wrappers and the code paths that construct them. Determine how a configuration option could select argument-free, ABI-agnostic wrappers, then verify the behavior against the stated MPI-wrapper use case and any existing wrapper tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100