Hi Andi, On Thu, Jan 18 2018, Andi Kleen wrote: > Martin Jambor <mjam...@suse.cz> writes: >> >> Therefore I would like to ask all seasoned GCC contributors who would >> like to mentor a GSoC student to send a reply to this thread with their >> idea for a project. If you have an idea but you do not want to be a >> mentor then I will consider it only if it is really interesting, really >> specific (e.g. improving -O2 -g *somehow* is not specific) and I would >> have to be reasonably confident I'd find a good mentor for it. So far I >> have the following ideas from the IRC discussion: > > Here's an idea: > > fuzzers like csmith are fairly good at finding compiler bugs. But they > only generate standard C, but no extensions. gcc has many extensions, > which are not covered. It would be good to extend a fuzzer like csmith > to fuzz extensions like OpenMP, __attributes__, vector > extensions, etc. Then run the fuzzer and report > compiler bugs. > > I'm not a seasoned gcc contributor, but would be willing to mentor > such a project. >
Thanks a lot, project noted, it is an interesting idea. You are definitely seasoned enough as far as I am concerned. Martin
