Thanks Mikhail, As you have suggested I have built gcc on my laptop and gone through all the videos. The videos were very informative. Can I use any IDE for browsing gcc source code ? Should I start looking at the "easy hacks" ?
On 9 January 2016 at 21:25, Mikhail Maltsev <malts...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/09/2016 06:10 PM, Prasad Ghangal wrote: >> Hi, >> I am Prasad Ghangal, a BTech student and I really want to contribute >> in gcc, but I am new to open source community. >> I can code in C,C++ and know little python. I have successfully built >> gcc on my local machine as instructed. >> >> So can someone please help me getting started? >> > Hi! > > Here is a list of first steps to start with: > https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted > > Also, you might want to take a look at these video lectures: > https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/index.php?page=videos, they are slightly > outdated > (~2012), but still give a good overview of GCC internals. > > There is a list of bugs and enhancement requests, which were marked by GCC > developers as "easy hacks", i.e. something that should be easy enough for new > contributors to start with: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=easyhack&list_id=135581&resolution=--- > > > -- > Regards, > Mikhail Maltsev -- Thanks and Regards, Prasad Ghangal