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Re: Getting started with contributing
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- To: Lee Millward <lee dot millward at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 23:27:07 +0200
- Subject: Re: Getting started with contributing
- References: <9784d3ab050609134723fe3c1f@mail.gmail.com>
> I'd like to get started with helping to develop GCC but am seeking
> some advice from those of you who are regular contributors on the best
> approach to adopt.
I think you should consider trying to fix bugs (Bugzilla has a broad choice of
these things :-), maybe front-end bugs to start with, say the C and C++
front-ends (relatively simple C++, not the fancy stuff), for example related
to warnings and errors. That will give you a glimpse of how these beasts
work. Then you could gradually migrate to other, "deeper" parts of the
compiler.
If you choose that approach, do not look at 3.x bugs; the 4.x compilers have
obsoleted a subtantial amount of 3.x-ish things it would be wasteful to learn
at this point.
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Eric Botcazou