Hello, On Mon, Oct 06 2025, Sundram Jha wrote: > Hello GCC Team, > > I hope this message finds you well.
first and foremost, sorry about the delay in replying. The project had the biggest yearly deadline earlier this week and many people, me included, were focusing on meeting it. > My name is *Sundaram*, and I’m an undergraduate computer science student > with a strong interest in compiler design, optimisation techniques, and > low-level programming. > > I’m familiar with *C and C++*, and I’ve been learning about compiler > internals, including lexical analysis, parsing, and code generation. I > would love to begin contributing to *GCC* and become part of your developer > community. We are delighted you found contributing to GCC appealing. The GCC project is a fairly big beast, so you'll probably need to select what is the bit that you want to look into first. > > I’m also very interested in participating in *Google Summer of Code (GSoC) > 2026* under your organisation, and I’d like to start contributing early to > better understand the workflow and codebase. > Since you are asking in the context of Google Summer of Code, you can have a look at our wiki page dedicated to it - even though it has not been updated yet for 2026 - and see in what areas we typically have projects and see if any of those particularly interests you: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode Also, make sure you have a look at the various tutorials linked from the "Before you apply" section of that page. > Could you please suggest any beginner-friendly issues or areas of the > codebase that are suitable for new contributors? I’m eager to start with > small contributions and gradually take on more complex tasks as I learn. That is unfortunately a fairly difficult question, there is not too many easy things to begin with. Nevertheless, you can search our Bugzilla for issues tagged with the keyword "easyhack" - those should generally be suitable for beginners. The following long URL should get you directly the search result: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=SUSPENDED&bug_status=WAITING&bug_status=REOPENED&cf_known_to_fail_type=allwords&cf_known_to_work_type=allwords&keywords=easyhack%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=495941&query_format=advanced But another way to find such issues may be to follow the mailing list and/or join our IRC channel and see what is being discussed. Please do not hesitate to ask any specific question here again, we'll try to reply in a more timely manner now. Good luck! Martin
