Thanks for your suggestions. It seems like the best place to start for someone new to GCC would be the beginners projects off from the GCC Projects webpage (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/beginner.html). I think I will start from there and then try to move to the cross-compiling area.
Thanks again for the links. They were helpful. Rodrigo -----Original Message----- From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:09 PM To: Rodrigo Dominguez Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Contributing to cross-compiling "Rodrigo Dominguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am PhD student in Computer Engineering. I would like to contribute to GCC > and at the same time learn more about cross-compilers. I have taken a couple > of compiler classes and I can program in C. However, I am not familiar with > the GCC internals. Do you have any suggestions on a project related to > cross-compiling that I could start with? Perhaps cross-compiling for the > XScale/ARM target? Thanks for your interest. There are a number of general projects for gcc. Google's Summer of Code is not running right now, but the wiki page for it points to a number of lists of open projects: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode Most of those are not specifically related to cross-compiling, but of course improvements to the general compiler will improve all targets. The ARM target is in pretty good shape in general. However, I do know that the code size is not as good as that generated by ARM's proprietary compiler. So that would an area to investigate. Also a quick bugzilla search for ARM turns up a number of open bug reports. I haven't looked at these at all so I don't know how relevant they are. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_typ e=allwordssubstr&short_desc=ARM&known_to_fail_type=allwordssubstr&known_to_w ork_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_typ e=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&gcchost_type=allwordssubstr&gcchost=&gcctarge t_type=allwordssubstr&gcctarget=&gccbuild_type=allwordssubstr&gccbuild=&keyw ords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_statu s=ASSIGNED&bug_status=SUSPENDED&bug_status=WAITING&bug_status=REOPENED&email assigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporte r2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes =&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sor t+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= Hope this helps. Ian
