Contributing

[Tobias Schlüter]

Gunnar wrote:
> Well, I read in the docs about contributing:
> 
> "Implement new functionality. An easy beginner's project should be 
> implementing some of the non-standard intrinsics that g77 suppports."
> 
> Easy beginner's project sounds perfect. Now, where do I start after 
> downloading and compiling the source? 

Get a copyright assignment on file with the FSF. See
<http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#legal>

While you wait for the formal stuff to finish you can search the mailing list
archives for past patches which already implemented some of these intrinsics,
Steven Kargl was the author of most of these.  See http://gcc.gnu.org/PR19292
for a list of currently unimplemented g77 intrinsics.

- Tobi