Hello, I am an engineering student. I’ve worked on high frequency trading systems, and (research) on the Linux kernel I/O and memory subsystems. I am looking to start contributing to GCC, for quite some time now, as my work utilises it extensively :)
But GCC is complex, I believe the mentorship from GSOC will enable me to start. I have of course gone through the “Before you Apply” section (also built GCC, and executed test suite). I’d also like to mention that David’s newbie guide and Prof Uday Khedkar’s content have played a huge role in motivating me to apply. I wish to know what contributions I can make towards Link-Time Optimizations? It would be amazing if someone can point out who I should discuss this with. Additionally, I went through the linked issues in “Extend the static analysis pass” mentored by David Malcom. Refactoring the format-string logic will familiarise me with the GCC codebase. And my experience with Linux kernel and CPython APIs may come of use in integrating the checker there. I’m hence looking into both for now, and intend to decide as per the information I get for LTO hereon. Thanks and regards, Yatindra Indoria
