Wannabe Contributor: My plan + Need guidance

Thanks DJ & Mike for your quick replies. This is to summarise my plan so that others can guide/help me. Considering that GCC has no garbage code (Right? Mike!) I would like to rephrase my task as removing dead code, unwanted code, any fat that we can get rid of from the source tree .. [Somebody

Wannabe Contributor: Questions related to Dev Box setup and other issues

Hi, I guess will refer me to read the web site. While I am doing that, I am not clear about my issue. It goes.. I want to contribute to GCC dev and I will start at basic projects for beginners. While I am setting up my dev box for GCC work, I want to know? 1) Any advise on selecting Linux distr