Week 9 of GSoC 2024: Progress on the Simplifier Pass and Optional Arguments
Hey, I'm excited to share that this week I picked up something new: the simplifier pass. I
briefly described the pass in the last blog. This week, I focused on fixing bugs in the pass and had
regular meetings with Gagandeep to understand its workings in more detail. These sessions were like
pair programming, where I learned more about resolving bugs and implementing new features.
A detailed overview of the pass is present here: #3748
I'm thrilled to report that around 31% of tests now pass with the simplifier pass, and we are not
far from achieving our final goal.
In parallel, I continued working on optional arguments and opened a PR that now supports optional
arguments for minloc and maxloc for both compile-time and runtime. I also
added integration tests for these. The PR is ready for review.
For the upcoming week, I plan to focus on the simplifier pass, helping to resolve bugs and wrap it
up soon.
Progress tracker: #4017.
This week was really exciting, and I'm grateful to Ondřej
Čertík and the rest of the mentors at LFortran for their constant reviews and
suggestions. I look forward to next week and am eager to complete the planned tasks. Stay tuned for
more updates!
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