Sponsoring work on GCC

Sponsoring work on GCC

[Patrick Oppenlander]

Hi,

is it possible to sponsor some work on GCC?

The company I work for is affected by an ICE (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55113) which prevents us from using current versions of GCC.

They are prepared to offer sponsership to an individual or corporation to have the bug addressed.

Is there anyone out there that would be interested and have the required skills to take on a job such as this?

Kind Regards,

          Patrick

Re: Sponsoring work on GCC

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Patrick Oppenlander
<pattyo.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> is it possible to sponsor some work on GCC?
>
> The company I work for is affected by an ICE
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55113) which prevents us from
> using current versions of GCC.
>
> They are prepared to offer sponsership to an individual or corporation to
> have the bug addressed.
>
> Is there anyone out there that would be interested and have the required
> skills to take on a job such as this?

You can hire people to work on GCC.  A lot of GCC work is done that
way.  For example, Mentor Graphics' CodeSourcery unit does this.  I
believe Red Hat still does it as well--they certainly did it in the
past.  Or you can hire individuals; there are a number of experienced
GCC developers who work on a contract basis.

But you seem to be talking about a specific bug that is probably not
too hard to fix, and probably not worth the effort of hiring someone
with a contract and so forth.  I don't know of any mechanism specific
to GCC for sponsoring specific bug fixes.  Perhaps you could look into
one of the open source bounty programs.

Ian