Re: Help needed.

[Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>]

> Message-ID: <20000309084053.67794.qmail@hotmail.com>
> From: "Virgil Palanciuc" <vv2vv@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:40:53 EET

> I am a student at "Politehnica" University Bucharest and my
> graduation project is to optimize the memory and register allocation

Well, optimizing gcc's memory allocation should be an intersting
project.  Certainly we do little in this area, so any improvement you
could contribute would be great.  Also, with the advent of 200+ cycle
memory misses, it might be fairly profitable.  As for register
allocation, I would hope that it would be hard to improve gcc's
scheme, but the right peron with the right algorithm...

> schemes for a specific architecture (Motorola's SC100 family).

Our code isn't specific to any processor and any code you submit that
we included, would have to be fairly machine independent, or at least,
it would have to not harm performance on other machines.

> I saw at www.gnu.org that you encourage people to write you, and so
> I wrote you this message, hoping that you can provide me

You should not count on us providing you with much, other than what
you can get with ftp and the web.  All that, you can find via our web
site.  We are more likely to answer a very specific and details
question, than a question like, so, how does this thing work?

> something that would be helpful (like the e-mail address of someone

We don't provide email addresses of anyone.  You already have _the_
email address.

> willing to answer some of my questions, or maybe a mailing list I
> should subscribe to in order to find these answers).

You already know the list.  See our website for details on subscribing
(gcc.gnu.org).