Hi everyone,

My name is Rishi Raj, and I am a third-year undergraduate studying Computer
Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in
India. I wish to participate in this year's GSOC with GCC.

My progress so far:

   1. Successfully built the GCC from source using the installing gcc
   guide. (I will run the test suite today.)
   2. Read about different configuration options during installations and
   also went through the gcc-newbies-guide, which was an exciting read and
   provided an overview of how to proceed in gcc-contribution. I want to
   extend my appreciation to David for this.

After reading about the suggested projects described on GCC's GSOC page, I
found "Bypass assembler when generating LTO object files" and "C++:
Implement compiler built-in traits for the standard library traits"
interesting. Currently, I am examining the preliminary patch
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-09/msg00340.html for the first project. I
can work on a small project/patch after this in a day or two. I would
greatly appreciate your suggestions for the same.

I have taken compiler theory and laboratory courses as a part of my
institute curriculum. In the laboratory, we designed a tiny-c compiler (a
subset of GCC). In theory, I learned about different phases of
compilations, various optimization techniques, etc.

Please find my course website link for a detailed overview:
https://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~bivasm/compiler2022.html#Lecture

This course was the starting point of my interest in compiler development,
and I want to take it further by making meaningful contributions to GCC. I
hope to make some significant contributions to GCC this summer and in the
future. I would appreciate any suggestions on taking on a small
patch/project or delving deeper into the projects I am interested in
pursuing.


Best regards,

Rishi Raj