Re: GSoC 2018: Hrishikesh Kulkarni has been selected to work on LTO dumping tool

[Hrishikesh Kulkarni <hrishikeshparag at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for giving me this wonderful opportunity to work with GCC
under your guidance and mentorship (GSOC 2018).

Just a few starting queries

   1.

   As a starting point to read lto-object file, is it sufficient to only
   link with lto-object.c or shall I need other source files too ?
   2.

   Should the dump tool be under gcc or lto dir? Would I need to modify
   only gcc/Makefile.in to add entry for building the dump tool or any other
   Makefiles too ?


Also, I would proceed with copyright assignment as soon as I will receive
the mentioned forms.


Thanks,

Hrishikesh


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Hrishikesh Kulkarni will be working on
> "Textual Representation of LTO Object Files (Textual LTO dump tool
> project)" as his Google Summer of Code 2018 project.  I believe I write
> on behalf of everybody in the GCC community when I congratulate him and
> wish him success in the upcoming work.  Hrishikesh's mentors are Martin
> Liška and Jan Hubička, but the plan is to have most of the conversation
> about the project on the mailing list and so I would like to encourage
> everyone to help him out here if they can.
>
> According to the schedule of GSoC, we have entered "Community Bonding
> period" which lasts until May 14th (when the first out of three "coding"
> periods begin).  Hrishikesh, Martin and Honza will take over from me in
> suggesting what technical things you should study/play with, but I'd
> like to request that you make sure you get an FSF copyright assignment
> quickly (see https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#legal).  David, I
> assume that Hrishikesh does not have the assignment yet, can you please
> send him the necessary forms?  Hrishikesh, please fill them is when you
> get and send them to FSF.  If at any moment it will appear that the
> process got stuck, please let me know sooner rather than later.
>
> On a general note, GCC was given two student slots which we requested
> after receiving two high-quality student proposals.  Unfortunately,
> Sebastiaan has withdrawn from GSoC 2018 before selection was announced
> and so we "only" have one student this year.
>
> I'm looking forward to the new tool,
>
> Martin
>