Dear all,
I hope you’ve been doing well! I’m Zhiwen, an undergraduate who is working towards his degree jointly in mathematics and computer science. I’m writing to express my interest in working on a medium-sized (or large-sized) project that, broadly speaking, extends the static-analysis pass(es). In particular, I’ve been dabbling between extending the analyzer’s support for C++ and extending the plugin to add checking for usage of the CPython API, such as reference counting. Both topics can be found in the [ideas list](https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode). Nevertheless, I haven’t yet settled down a fine-grained problem (in the scope of the aforementioned topics) to work on. For extending the analyzer’s support for C++, I was wondering if I should (or am expected to) curate a very specific proposition that may be generated from [the existing bugs](https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=97110) or something else (e.g., loosely coupling a batch of bugs that have a similar gist). To briefly introduce my background, I have gained previous experience in compilers, mainly through engineering compilers and interpreters in C++ and OCaml. One of the compiler projects I’ve been working on is [ccmic]( https://github.com/zzmic/ccmic), a work-in-progress implementation of a C compiler (that supports a subset of the C programming language) written in C++. On top of that, I had and have been working on (1) an interpreter for a (quite simple/naive) object-oriented language that adheres to its syntax and small-step operational semantics and (2) compilers that can be thought of as transpilers that, for instance, compile scheme-like programs to C-like programs and compile C-like programs to RISC-V assembly. Furthermore, I’ve some experience in contributing to open-source projects, such as [p4c](https://github.com/p4lang/p4c), although the [PRs I made]( https://github.com/p4lang/p4c/issues?q=state%3Aclosed%20is%3Apr%20author%3A%40me) are not game-changing and are definitely not to the extent of a GSoC project. Thanks for your patience in reading this perhaps long-winded message, and please feel absolutely free to make any comments or suggestions. Best regards, Zhiwen
