Hello, On Sun, Mar 19 2023, ANKESH PANDEY . wrote: > Hello, > > I am Ankesh Pandey, a 3rd year Computer Science Undergraduate. > > I am interested in contributing for the following projects:
We are delighted you found contributing to GCC interesting. > > 1. > > Unicode support: Our Lexer and AST do not support Unicode strings and > identifiers, which we need to be a Rust compiler. The project will require > a student to work mostly in the Lexer and AST but the changes here will > ripple all the way through our HIR and code-generation passes. For example, > in implementing Unicode support, it will make sense to ensure we improve > location info, so instead of simply passing around Unicode strings in the > IR's we should create a unique string data structure which also contains > location info to improve our error diagnostics and debug > information. *Difficulty: > Hard Size: 350 hours (large) Mentors: Arthur and/or Philip* > 2. > > Improving user errors: We recently merged code enabling the Rust > frontend to emit error codes similarly to rustc. We'd like for gccrs to be > able to emit the same errors codes as rustc, in order to help bridge the > gap between our two testsuites and enable us to eventually run the rustc > one. The student will have to research rustc error codes, their various > guarantees, and emit them throughout the frontend code. We would also like > the code responsible for emitting errors to get more fleshed out and allow > more functionality. Finally, this will also be a good project to start > looking at a better user experience for gccrs: emitting more errors, in > more places, with more hints to the users about ways to fix the > code. *Difficulty: > Medium Size: 175 (medium) Mentors: Arthur and/or Philip* > Please note that Rust-GCC projects are a bit special in the sense that they are often discussed primarily on Zulip of the gcc-rust team: https://gcc-rust.zulipchat.com/ So you may want to reach out to them there as well. > I am really good at C, C++ and have decent experience working with FLEX and > YACC and hence would be an appropriate candidate for the same. > > It would be great if you can give me insights on how I can formalize my > proposal for GSoC 2023. I assume you have already read through https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode The page has guidelines on what we expect to find a proposal. Feel free to ask about any specifics either here on the mailing list or on the Zulip linked above. Good luck! Martin
