I'm new and wanting to help!

[Jonathan Herriott]

I do not have anything specific in mind as of yet for improvements.  I
am willing to help with the tree optimizers, so I will download the
source and start dissecting it.  I just need to get a better idea of
how it currently works and how we want it to work.

In the mean time, is there anything specific you would like me to do?

Jon

On 8/2/06, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Herriott writes:
>
>  > I have always wanted to work on low level/compiler stuff, and I
>  > noticed that GCJ wanted some help with a few things.
>  >
>  > I have experience with optimizations and benchmarking and would like
>  > to know who I should get in contact with about helping in those area,
>  > but my main goal is to work in actually developing the compiler code.
>  > I have always wanted to work directly on a compiler, so I was
>  > wondering who I might get in contact about helping with the tree-level
>  > inlining.
>
> Well, to begin with, me.  However, the tree inliner is in the core
> part of gcc: that is to say, it is language-independent.  So, Diego
> Novillo and Andrew MacLeod (tree-ssa maintainbers) will be involved.
>
> One of the greatest problems we in gcj land have with the tree
> optimizers is that they are too low-level.  It would be good if, for
> example, there was a virtual method call that could be exposed to the
> tree optimizers.  However, at the moment there is only a simple
> subroutine call.
>
> Can you let us know what kind of improvements you have in mind?
> You'll need copyright assignment.
>
> Andrew.
>