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Re: Hi! New to GCC
- From: Prasad Ghangal <prasad dot ghangal at gmail dot com>
- To: Mikhail Maltsev <maltsevm at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:36:11 +0530
- Subject: Re: Hi! New to GCC
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Thanks Mikhail,
As you have suggested I have built gcc on my laptop and gone through
all the videos. The videos were very informative.
Can I use any IDE for browsing gcc source code ? Should I start
looking at the "easy hacks" ?
On 9 January 2016 at 21:25, Mikhail Maltsev <maltsevm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/09/2016 06:10 PM, Prasad Ghangal wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am Prasad Ghangal, a BTech student and I really want to contribute
>> in gcc, but I am new to open source community.
>> I can code in C,C++ and know little python. I have successfully built
>> gcc on my local machine as instructed.
>>
>> So can someone please help me getting started?
>>
> Hi!
>
> Here is a list of first steps to start with:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted
>
> Also, you might want to take a look at these video lectures:
> https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/grc/index.php?page=videos, they are slightly outdated
> (~2012), but still give a good overview of GCC internals.
>
> There is a list of bugs and enhancement requests, which were marked by GCC
> developers as "easy hacks", i.e. something that should be easy enough for new
> contributors to start with:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?keywords=easyhack&list_id=135581&resolution=---
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mikhail Maltsev
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Thanks and Regards,
Prasad Ghangal