Re: Interested to contribute in gsoc project

[shreya pohekar <shreyapohekar at gmail dot com>]

Thanks, I'll check them out.

On 5 Mar 2018 9:01 pm, "Richard Biener" <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 8:28 PM, shreya pohekar <shreyapohekar@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello ,
> > I am Shreya Pohekar, 2nd year student of University Institute of
> Technology ,RGPV ,Bhopal, India. I am interested in applying in GSoC 2018,
> and would like to contribute to the project : Parallelize the compilation
> using threads.
> >
> > I am working with c/c++ for a long time and would be an appropriate
> candidate for this project. I have worked a bit on GCC as well , when I was
> learning ARM exploitation.
> >
> > Can you guide me from where to get started? Or anything additional that
> I need to study.
>
> A good starting point is the GCC WIKI at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki -
> there's a
> Getting Started with GCC Development section.  It's good to get one
> self familiar
> with building GCC from source and to see how to do edit/compile/debug
> cycles.
>
> For the project in question you need to make yourself familiar with
> the highlevel
> compilation flow.  toplev.c is where the main controlling pieces stick
> together.
> See do_compile -> compile_file -> symtab->finalize_compulation_unit ->
> compile
> which will eventually lead to the "pass manager".  The ultimate task would
> be
> to change the "pass manager" to execute chunks of passes in parallel and
> the
> first hurdle is to identify chunks that can be executed in parallel
> without too
> many changes (read: least global shared state).
>
> Richard.
>
>
> > Thanks
> >
> > Regards,
> > Shreya
> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >
>