Tasks

OMRStatistics

• Run OMRCHECKER and make sure it works at least on AMD64
• Analyze new OMR with new clang
• Create issue on Github for current task (finding a function to vitualize)
• Send candidate classes to Xiaoli
• Use new clang to analyze the new OMRStatistics code successfully. (issue #40)
  • Install a newer version of clang on server (via Moein's help)
  • Sync samasri/omr fork with eclipse/omr to get updated source code
  • Change makefile to use clang++-5.0 instead of clang
• Fix errors when running OMRStatistics on OpenJ9 (error list)
• Use CallGraph with new Clang (issue #48)
• Fix inconsistency in database (issue #54)
• Update documentation

To make an impact on the OMR project

• Draft an issue description and send it to Xiaoli (about changing from static polymorphism to hybrid)
• Virtualize ELFRelocationResolver
• Test if OMR will not break (make useCall and make useIncrement)
• Create PR to my repository with the changes
• Check with Matthew what is his suggestion about OMR_EXTENSION
• Edit PR to my repository with the Matthew's suggestion
• Create PR to eclipse/omr Github repo.
• Run OMR on OpenJ9 (issue #39)
• Update the database with new results about function overrides (issue #51)
• Make a list of all overriden functions in CodeGenerator
• Build OpenJ9 successfully using Docker
• Virtualize functions of CodeGenerator that are overridden in OpenJ9 (issue #52)
• Submit a PR to github.com/eclipse/omr
• Fix typo in PR
• Fix issue in omr PR
• Remove OMR_API macro from the PR
• Make a table: Class Hierarchy | # of functions overridden | # of functions overridden in openj9
• Pick the top 20 classes to virtualize (first 20 classes of the table)
• Virtualize all functions in the picked classes
  • Fix OMR PR issue
  • Fix openJ9 PR issue (samasri/openj9:3)
  • Virtualize the rest of the classes