On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Patrick Oppenlander <pattyo.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > is it possible to sponsor some work on GCC? > > The company I work for is affected by an ICE > (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55113) which prevents us from > using current versions of GCC. > > They are prepared to offer sponsership to an individual or corporation to > have the bug addressed. > > Is there anyone out there that would be interested and have the required > skills to take on a job such as this? You can hire people to work on GCC. A lot of GCC work is done that way. For example, Mentor Graphics' CodeSourcery unit does this. I believe Red Hat still does it as well--they certainly did it in the past. Or you can hire individuals; there are a number of experienced GCC developers who work on a contract basis. But you seem to be talking about a specific bug that is probably not too hard to fix, and probably not worth the effort of hiring someone with a contract and so forth. I don't know of any mechanism specific to GCC for sponsoring specific bug fixes. Perhaps you could look into one of the open source bounty programs. Ian
