On 01/21/2016 09:06 AM, Prasad Ghangal wrote: > 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 ? Probably. Although IDE-s might have some performance and memory usage problems, because GCC is a fairly large project. I used Netbeans some time ago and it worked OK in most cases. Same caveats are: 1. Almost all source code is written in C++, even though files have extension '.c'. You should configure your IDE appropriately. 2. During build GCC generates some source code in the build directory (like gcc/insn-*.c files), so it is probably a good idea to include build directory in search path.
If you decide to use a text editor like vim or emacs, there are some configuration files which set proper source code formatting options, like contrib/lvimrc. Settings for emacs are available here: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FormattingCodeForGCC > Should I star looking at the "easy hacks" ? Yes, probably it's a good point to start with. -- Regards, Mikhail Maltsev
