Hello, I am Ankesh Pandey, a 3rd year Computer Science Undergraduate.
I am interested in contributing for the following projects: 1. Unicode support: Our Lexer and AST do not support Unicode strings and identifiers, which we need to be a Rust compiler. The project will require a student to work mostly in the Lexer and AST but the changes here will ripple all the way through our HIR and code-generation passes. For example, in implementing Unicode support, it will make sense to ensure we improve location info, so instead of simply passing around Unicode strings in the IR's we should create a unique string data structure which also contains location info to improve our error diagnostics and debug information. *Difficulty: Hard Size: 350 hours (large) Mentors: Arthur and/or Philip* 2. Improving user errors: We recently merged code enabling the Rust frontend to emit error codes similarly to rustc. We'd like for gccrs to be able to emit the same errors codes as rustc, in order to help bridge the gap between our two testsuites and enable us to eventually run the rustc one. The student will have to research rustc error codes, their various guarantees, and emit them throughout the frontend code. We would also like the code responsible for emitting errors to get more fleshed out and allow more functionality. Finally, this will also be a good project to start looking at a better user experience for gccrs: emitting more errors, in more places, with more hints to the users about ways to fix the code. *Difficulty: Medium Size: 175 (medium) Mentors: Arthur and/or Philip* I am really good at C, C++ and have decent experience working with FLEX and YACC and hence would be an appropriate candidate for the same. It would be great if you can give me insights on how I can formalize my proposal for GSoC 2023. Hoping to contribute to the organization through GSoC 2023. Thank you. -- The information contained in this electronic communication is intended solely for the individual(s) or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain proprietary, confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, printing, copying or other use of, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information by person(s) or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by responding to this email or telephone and immediately and permanently delete all copies of this message and any attachments from your system(s). The contents of this message do not necessarily represent the views or policies of BITS Pilani.
