Re: GSoC 2023

[Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>]

Hello,

On Sun, Mar 19 2023, ANKESH PANDEY . wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am Ankesh Pandey, a 3rd year Computer Science Undergraduate.
>
> I am interested in contributing for the following projects:

We are delighted you found contributing to GCC interesting.

>
>    1.
>
>    Unicode support: Our Lexer and AST do not support Unicode strings and
>    identifiers, which we need to be a Rust compiler. The project will require
>    a student to work mostly in the Lexer and AST but the changes here will
>    ripple all the way through our HIR and code-generation passes. For example,
>    in implementing Unicode support, it will make sense to ensure we improve
>    location info, so instead of simply passing around Unicode strings in the
>    IR's we should create a unique string data structure which also contains
>    location info to improve our error diagnostics and debug
> information. *Difficulty:
>    Hard Size: 350 hours (large) Mentors: Arthur and/or Philip*
>    2.
>
>    Improving user errors: We recently merged code enabling the Rust
>    frontend to emit error codes similarly to rustc. We'd like for gccrs to be
>    able to emit the same errors codes as rustc, in order to help bridge the
>    gap between our two testsuites and enable us to eventually run the rustc
>    one. The student will have to research rustc error codes, their various
>    guarantees, and emit them throughout the frontend code. We would also like
>    the code responsible for emitting errors to get more fleshed out and allow
>    more functionality. Finally, this will also be a good project to start
>    looking at a better user experience for gccrs: emitting more errors, in
>    more places, with more hints to the users about ways to fix the
> code. *Difficulty:
>    Medium Size: 175 (medium) Mentors: Arthur and/or Philip*
>

Please note that Rust-GCC projects are a bit special in the sense that
they are often discussed primarily on Zulip of the gcc-rust team:

https://gcc-rust.zulipchat.com/

So you may want to reach out to them there as well.

> I am really good at C, C++ and have decent experience working with FLEX and
> YACC and hence would be an appropriate candidate for the same.
>
> It would be great if you can give me insights on how I can formalize my
> proposal for GSoC 2023.

I assume you have already read through https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode  
The page has guidelines on what we expect to find a proposal.

Feel free to ask about any specifics either here on the mailing list or
on the Zulip linked above.

Good luck!

Martin