User:Sharan.nyn/GSoC18/Report

Report : Check Command and Overlaps Tool

The work done for the project can be split into the following parts:

libanalyze function -- analyze_overlaps and libged command -- check_overlaps

 NOTE: This was later replaced with better code by me ;)

• The main goal behind adding a check_overlaps command was that libged's rtcheck command acted as a wrapper for the rtcheck program, and ran the rtcheck program with execvp command -- this was not desired as the execution was done in a different process.
• I added the check_overlaps command which had the same options as rtcheck command and the logic behind shooting of rays was done in libanalyze.
• The overlaps were processed on libged side with callback functions.
• The submitted patches were committed by Daniel --
  • r70995 r71008 r71402
  • r71050 -- this was later reverted by me (r71059)
• I was given commit access to the repo :) and I did the following commits:
  • r71063 r71065 r71066 r71067
• Documentation work related to check_overlaps -- #497

rtcheck based on libanalyze's analyze_overlaps function

• Since the logic for shooting the rays was in libanalyze function analyze_overlaps.
• My next task was to refactor rtcheck program to use analyze_overlaps.
• #495 was submitted.