[GSoC] Interest in applying

[GSoC] Interest in applying

[tmpod]

Hello,

I am a Computer Science student, currently taking a Master's degree in                                                                                                                          
Portugal's top university. I have a strong passion for algorithms, data                                                                                                                         
structures and high performance computing, having participated in many                                                                                                                          
programming contests (nationals, SWERC, Google's now defunct                                                                                                                                    
competitions, etc) too. I have also some experience in contributing to                                                                                                                          
open-source and working in software development teams. 
C and C++ are the languages I've used the most, always compiled with
GCC. My fascination with this area of computer science, and especially
with GCC's details, has been present since an early age, so this Google
program felt like the perfect opportunity to act and learn more!

After carefully reading your approved ideas page, the ones that stand                                                                                                                           
out more to me are:
* Improving OpenACC support
* Extending the static analysis pass (for format strings, in particular)
* Improving nothrow detection

I have read the "Before you apply" and completed some of the steps
outlined, and will do so as well for the remaining, tomorrow.

I am aware of the very tight deadline and that it may be hard to write a
community-backed proposal now, but unfortunately I was only made aware
of Google's program a couple of days ago. Still, I'm going to try my
best to write a quality proposal until Tuesday.

If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
I'd love to further discuss these with you.

Kind regards,

~tmpod


PS: To all celebrating Easter (and not hehe!), I hope you have wonderful Sunday.

Re: [GSoC] Interest in applying

[Martin Jambor]

Hello,

On Sun, Mar 31 2024, tmpod via Gcc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a Computer Science student, currently taking a Master's degree in                                                                                                                          
> Portugal's top university. I have a strong passion for algorithms, data                                                                                                                         
> structures and high performance computing, having participated in many                                                                                                                          
> programming contests (nationals, SWERC, Google's now defunct                                                                                                                                    
> competitions, etc) too. I have also some experience in contributing to                                                                                                                          
> open-source and working in software development teams. 
> C and C++ are the languages I've used the most, always compiled with
> GCC. My fascination with this area of computer science, and especially
> with GCC's details, has been present since an early age, so this Google
> program felt like the perfect opportunity to act and learn more!
>
> After carefully reading your approved ideas page, the ones that stand                                                                                                                           
> out more to me are:
> * Improving OpenACC support
> * Extending the static analysis pass (for format strings, in particular)
> * Improving nothrow detection
>
> I have read the "Before you apply" and completed some of the steps
> outlined, and will do so as well for the remaining, tomorrow.
>
> I am aware of the very tight deadline and that it may be hard to write a
> community-backed proposal now, but unfortunately I was only made aware
> of Google's program a couple of days ago. Still, I'm going to try my
> best to write a quality proposal until Tuesday.
>
> If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
> I'd love to further discuss these with you.
>

We are delighted you found contributing to GCC interesting.

As you correctly wrote, the deadline is tight and so I cannot really write
more than that we are looking forward to see your application - and Easter
has made the situation worse).  Most of the projects you have listed have
been discussed on the mailing list recently, so hopefully you have found
some of the notes in the archive.  

Good luck!

Martin