Hello Arnav, On Tue, Mar 10 2026, Arnav Soni via Gcc wrote: > I am Arnav Soni, a student studying Software Engineering. I have > always been fascinated by OSS, and this time I thought I will actually > start contributing. GSoC seemed like a great opportunity to get > started. I have intermediate-level C/C++ knowledge and a little > experience with compiler design.
we are delighted you found contributing to GCC interesting. > > I looked through the "selected projects" list and also the list of > "other project ideas" and one of those seemed particularly interesting > to me. "Analyze and improve inlining, loop unrolling, reassociation > and predictive commoning heuristics for PowerPC architecture". Please note that this one comes from the "Other Project Ideas" section of our ideas page and as warning right under the section title says, many of these can be "fully or partially obsolete." There may also not be anyone with the needed knowledge available to mentor such project this year. Please don't be too disappointed if that turns out to be the case. > > I have narrowed my focus to reassociation and was wondering if it > would be possible to make a good GSoC project, or if experienced > developers would be kind enough to recommend something else. Unfortunately I personally cannot advise on this. I'm CCing our PowerPC port maintainers in case they can comment. > This is my first time trying to contribute to something of this scale, > and any pointers would be much appreciated. I would also like to add > that I am excited to contribute to gcc, irrespective of if my GSoC > proposal gets accepted or not. Thank you for your attention. > Thank you and good luck! Martin
