Sponsoring work on GCC

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Patrick Oppenlander
<pattyo.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> is it possible to sponsor some work on GCC?
>
> The company I work for is affected by an ICE
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55113) which prevents us from
> using current versions of GCC.
>
> They are prepared to offer sponsership to an individual or corporation to
> have the bug addressed.
>
> Is there anyone out there that would be interested and have the required
> skills to take on a job such as this?

You can hire people to work on GCC.  A lot of GCC work is done that
way.  For example, Mentor Graphics' CodeSourcery unit does this.  I
believe Red Hat still does it as well--they certainly did it in the
past.  Or you can hire individuals; there are a number of experienced
GCC developers who work on a contract basis.

But you seem to be talking about a specific bug that is probably not
too hard to fix, and probably not worth the effort of hiring someone
with a contract and so forth.  I don't know of any mechanism specific
to GCC for sponsoring specific bug fixes.  Perhaps you could look into
one of the open source bounty programs.

Ian