Re: GSOC

[Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>]

Hello,

On Sat, Mar 20 2021, Manish Sahani via Gcc wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm a  student at Delhi Technological University, and interested in
> contributing to the *Make cp-demangle non-recursive* and *Fortran improved
> argument compile-time checking*.

we are very happy to hear you are interested in two topics, especially
since they are quite different.  It is going to be difficult, but unless
you want to submit two GCC GSoC proposals, you will have to choose one.

> Before reaching out here In the past week
> I have gone through most of the introduction wiki on building and testing,
> some wikis on the structure of gcc, have played around with configure
> script (explored various options), build the code multiple times, and ran
> test cases.

Great, thanks for taking the effort before reaching out to us.  What
next now depends on your particular choice of project.  The C++
demangler is part of libiberty (subdirectory), is fairly self-contained
and you can just go and read the source and (assuming the stated goal is
fairly clear to you), start planning on how you would go about carrying
out the task.  Ask here if you have any questions.

I cannot really help you with the Fortran project idea too, much, I
would suggest you request help and guidance on the fortran@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list (but thanks for announcing your intention here anyway, I am
not subscribed to the fortran list myself).

>
> My previous intern at adobe included some work to analyze the MSVC manglers
> and so I'm very interested in the cp-demangle project and I also want to
> work on the improvement of compile-time argument. So, If somebody can
> redirect me to the starting point that would be very helpful.
>
> Also, while compiling without bootstrapping. I ran into an error (screenshot
> of the error

I cannot access that URL any more and as Jonathan pointed out, there is
really no need to send a screenshot when cut and pasted error would do.
If the error is not an internal compiler error, requesting help on
avoiding it indeed is more appropriate on the gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list.

Apologies for referring you to two different mailing lists, but you see,
the world of GCC big!

Good luck, please do not hesitate to ask for any help if you struggle
with any particular problem.

Martin