Hello GCC experts! I am looking for entry points to jump in GCC development, espcially back ends. For me I am generally interested in compiler construction, had written a C89 compatible compiler front end in C (lburg for CG in back end) as one of my hobby projects, and rudimental knowledge on GCC (most from gcc internal doc), with some other experience on performance tuning (assembly level) so I am not a complete newbie to compiler and I think I should move on to get hands dirty on larger projects like GCC.. I have checked "Simple GCC Projects" page (http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/beginner.html), which looks like a good starting point. Any suggestions on how to get started to take one of the projects there? For example, the first project in optimizer section is "Make insn-recog.c use a byte-coded DFA", first I am not sure if this is still applicable (as it might be already done because I haven't found any file named insn-recog.c in current code base), and second how can I get contact with the origniator of the project to get more contact information? Alternatively I can start on bug fixing - which may or may not appropriate for a beginner who doesn't know much about the code base. Anyways, any guidance is much appreciated. I've heard people complaining the intimidating code base of gcc but I have my curiosity and (hopefully) a lot spare time so that won't be a problem.. Thanks in advance ~Michael -- If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it
