Hi, I am CCing the GCC mailing list again because you are much more likely to get advice from the people on the list than just from me.
On Wed, Feb 10 2021, Ravi Kumar wrote: > First of all thanks for the reply. I have few questions: > 1.How can I improve my proposal? First and foremost, we need you to demonstrate that you have the skills necessary to work on the project and that you have a somewhat good idea what and how you want to accomplish. > 2.How much I have to contribute before the application period( minimum no. > of pull request merged)? We do not have any such hard requirement but candidates who can demonstrate that they can make some (even very basic) thing work are much more likely to be accepted. On the other hand, in the past we have accepted students who only got something working in the summer. > 3.Should I have some extra skill other than project requirements? The unusual requirement for extending the static analyzer in GCC - in the sense that it is not needed for our other project - is understanding some basic theory of static analysis in general. > 4.How can I know in depth about the static analyzer project(C++ support). I suppose the main source is the source code of the static analysis pass and various blog posts and presentations that David Malcolm, its author, has published over the last year or so. They should not be hard to Google for. Please note that you also should choose what extension of the static analysis pass you'd like to work on. The page https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode lists four suggestions, you are of course welcome to come up with your own. > > Till now I grabbed very few knowledge of the project. I am trying hard to > get something out of it but I find it very difficult. I need someone's help > who can make me understand the project completely. I completely understand it is very hard, but there is no alternative to sitting down, reading the source code and playing and experimenting with it. The analyzer lives in the gcc/analyzer subdirectory in the GCC sources and the entry point, as far as I understand it (i.e. not very much) is run_checkers() in gcc/analyzer/engine.cc. You are very welcome to ask questions - even beginner's questions but specific questions - on the mailing list and/or on our IRC channel. Everyone is busy of course, but we try to answer such questions as much as possible. Good luck, Martin
