On March 19, 2015 4:57:37 AM GMT+01:00, Trevor Saunders <tbsau...@tbsaunde.org> wrote: >On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:09:28PM +0800, xue yinsong wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 15/3/18 下午10:08, "Diego Novillo" <dnovi...@google.com> wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:54 AM, xue yinsong ><xyshh94...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Somehow this project is not in the gsoc ideas list, and it’s been >one year since the last commit(According to >https://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/gimple-front-end/ChangeLog). >> >> >> >> Could someone tell me if this project is still active and eligible >for this year’s gsoc? >> > >> >I'm not sure. You'd have to find someone willing to mentor. There >are >> >other cleanups necessary for this to be viable. Perhaps start with >> >those? >> > >> > >> >Diego. >> >> I’m glad to get started now. >> Could you please give me some specific directions to work on ? > >I can't realistically offer more than to be a back up mentor for this >given my level of experience and available time. That said here are my >thoughts on how to proceed on this project. The first big use for the >gimple front end will be to be able to test specific bits of the >compiler with less interference from other parts. If you can merge >something that will let some people write tests for their bugs / >features with less work then the natural tendancy will be to improve >the >gimple front end. So I think the first goal should be to merge >something that works in some cases and then work on fixing the cases it >can't be used in. So first merge trunk into the gimple-front-end >branch. Then get the gimple front end to create gimple and pass it >down >to the optimizer. Once that works I suspect you will be able to write >test cases for some bugs people are fixing for the gimple front end to >prove it can test things easily. If you get to that point I think we >should look at merging the branch into main line and we can talk about >next steps.
I agree. I'd be willing to mentor this. Richard. >thanks and good luck! > >Trev > >> >> >> Yinsong. >>
