Thanks, I'll check them out. On 5 Mar 2018 9:01 pm, "Richard Biener" <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 8:28 PM, shreya pohekar <shreyapohe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hello , > > I am Shreya Pohekar, 2nd year student of University Institute of > Technology ,RGPV ,Bhopal, India. I am interested in applying in GSoC 2018, > and would like to contribute to the project : Parallelize the compilation > using threads. > > > > I am working with c/c++ for a long time and would be an appropriate > candidate for this project. I have worked a bit on GCC as well , when I was > learning ARM exploitation. > > > > Can you guide me from where to get started? Or anything additional that > I need to study. > > A good starting point is the GCC WIKI at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki - > there's a > Getting Started with GCC Development section. It's good to get one > self familiar > with building GCC from source and to see how to do edit/compile/debug > cycles. > > For the project in question you need to make yourself familiar with > the highlevel > compilation flow. toplev.c is where the main controlling pieces stick > together. > See do_compile -> compile_file -> symtab->finalize_compulation_unit -> > compile > which will eventually lead to the "pass manager". The ultimate task would > be > to change the "pass manager" to execute chunks of passes in parallel and > the > first hurdle is to identify chunks that can be executed in parallel > without too > many changes (read: least global shared state). > > Richard. > > > > Thanks > > > > Regards, > > Shreya > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > >
