Need Guidance for GSOC 2021

Need Guidance for GSOC 2021

[Abhay Singh]

Hi Sir/Mam,

My name is Abhay Singh, second year undergraduate student from Lovely Professional University, enrolled in Bachelors of Technology, Computer Science.
I am using GCC Compilers from the starting edge of mu engineering programme, and I experience a lot of updates, and I also want to be a part of your organisation through a project contribution.
I have a great enthusiast regarding open source and contributing to the projects. And when I go through the introduction part of one of your projects from 2020, named as GNU Compiler Collection, it excites me a lot.
So I wanted to contribute to your projects so that I can add some of my knowledge as a contribution to your project.

Please guide me for the further process.

Thanks.

Re: Need Guidance for GSOC 2021

[Martin Jambor]

Hello Abhay,

On Wed, Dec 16 2020, Abhay Singh via Gcc wrote:
> Hi Sir/Mam,
>
> My name is Abhay Singh, second year undergraduate student from Lovely
> Professional University, enrolled in Bachelors of Technology, Computer
> Science.  I am using GCC Compilers from the starting edge of mu
> engineering programme, and I experience a lot of updates, and I also
> want to be a part of your organisation through a project contribution.

> I have a great enthusiast regarding open source and contributing to
> the projects. And when I go through the introduction part of one of
> your projects from 2020, named as GNU Compiler Collection, it excites
> me a lot.  So I wanted to contribute to your projects so that I can
> add some of my knowledge as a contribution to your project.
>
> Please guide me for the further process.
>

I am very pleased to hear about your interest.  Although our GCC wiki
has not been updated for the 2021 yet (I will do it early in January)
but it is the correct place to start:
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode

At the moment the most important section is "Before you apply" which
will has links to the first steps you should probably make to gain the
very initial insight into GCC and ability to build, examine and test it.

Afterwards, look at the list of selected projects.  At the moment I am
reasonably confident that project "Bypass assembler when generating LTO
object files," some extension of the static analysis pass and all
Fortran projects will still be on our list of ideas in 2021, try to find
the place in the compiler where you'd work, look around and start
questions on this list in order to write up your proposal.

Good luck,

Martin