From: Jose Da S. <di...@jo...> - 2020-01-27 01:36:59
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Hi David, Start with small patches and improvements first instead of trying to tackle a big monster project. This comes with time as you get more familiar with the code. I agree, C is much more interesting. You may want to take a top-down look (to see the forest), but probably try fix from a bottom-up approach. Top down approach can easily fix one thing and break something else (and there are times where the code flipped one way and then another) but doing a bottom-up approach, you can fix a number of lower- level unstable functions that assume data is good (doesn't handle bad data well), and also misses a bit of housecleaning along the way. Keep an eye for improvement, like making code thread-safe/re-entrant code, big/little endian, runs well on modern distros and if you can, older distros, big/little endian. |