Hello, sorry for a late reply. I was traveling and in various meetings over the course of the last two weeks and could not pay as much attention to email as I would have liked to. Nevertheless, we are delighted you found contributing to GCC interesting.
On Sun, Sep 26 2021, mir imnan via Gcc wrote: > Hello there, > I want to contribute to GCC through next year's GSoC program. I'm a 2nd > year engineering student, and I've been interested in compiler dev for > quite some time now. Until now, I've implemented a high level PL(Zeta-lang > <https://github.com/mirimmad/zeta-lang>) and I'm now trying to write a C > compiler in Ruby(rubyC <https://github.com/mirimmad/rubyc>). Indeed quite interesting. > At this point, I can build the GCC from source and have read some internal > docs. I want someone to help me to figure out the codebase and select a > project idea that's appropriate for me (given my experience). You have already reached the right place to ask questions about the codebase. Just email it to the gcc mailing list. Alternatively, ask it on the #gcc irc channel (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCConIRC) if you prefer more real-time communication. Regarding project ideas, that really depends on what you are interested in. GCC is a big project and you need to find the part that interests you most. If you like to work on the front-end (parsing) side of things, I know that Fortran guys are always looking for someone to help them out. On the optimization and code-generation side of things, potential projects are usually a bit bigger and more complex and so we do not advertise them as much for GSoC, so I don't have a good proposal right now, but we should be able to come up with something. (Also, so far I do not know the scope of GSoC 22 projects, I expect Google to announce that on November 5th.) In general, I expect all the projects on our GSoC wiki (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode) that were not successfully tacked this year to be on the list next year again. I'm looking forward to seeing you on the mailing list and/or IRC, Martin
