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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>
Cc: Prateek Kalra <prateekkalra2010@gmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCC GSOC Participation
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> I would suggest that you start with reading through Andi's email to
> another student who expressed interest in that project which you can
> find at: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-02/msg00216.html
> 
> Andi, do you have any further suggestions what Prateek should check-out,
> perhaps build, examine and experiment with in order to come up with a
> nice proposal? 

See other mail.

> Do you personally prefer starting with any particular
> existing fuzzer, for example?

Yes should start with an existing fuzzer and just add the extensions.
Otherwise too much time will be spent on the base language functionality.
I would suggest either csmith or yarpgen.

-Andi