Re: Request for Direction.

["David H. Lynch Jr." <david.lynch@sadram.net>]

For now I just need to be able to impliment something relatively simply
so that we can write take some existing applications - such as AI, or
sparse arrays or  .... and demonstrate/test end to end our concept. 

If it is successful and various others think there is a better syntax,
or means of implimenting that is a future problem. 



On Mon, 2023-12-18 at 08:59 +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 11:53 PM Jonathan Wakely via Gcc
> <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 at 22:41, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote:
> > > I am looking for any help I can get - pointers as to where to
> > > start
> > > with GCC, docs or howto's through to someone that wishes to
> > > participate
> > > in the project.  There is a potential for compensation - we are
> > > seeking
> > > a grant, though our long term goals are partnership with a Memory
> > > vendor.
> > 
> > I would start with https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted
> > and the docs it links to at
> > https://gcc-newbies-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> 
> You might also want to look at named address spaces, though they
> are tracked as qualifiers.  Generally annotations to declarations are
> easiest as custom attributes, though I would guess you need to
> be able to annotate pointer (types) as well, thus my hint with the
> address-spaces.  I guess handling all Content addressable variables
> as being in a single special address space isn't enough of
> information
> to address them.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> > This list is the place to ask if you get stuck, or the #gcc channel
> > on
> > the OFTC IRC network.