<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Contributing - Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Service.html#Service" title="Service"> <link rel="next" href="Funding.html#Funding" title="Funding"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Contributing"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Funding.html#Funding">Funding</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Service.html#Service">Service</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">15 Contributing to GCC Development</h2> <p>If you would like to help pretest GCC releases to assure they work well, current development sources are available by SVN (see <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/svn.html</a>). Source and binary snapshots are also available for FTP; see <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/snapshots.html</a>. <p>If you would like to work on improvements to GCC, please read the advice at these URLs: <pre class="smallexample"> <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html</a> <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/contributewhy.html">http://gcc.gnu.org/contributewhy.html</a> </pre> <p class="noindent">for information on how to make useful contributions and avoid duplication of effort. Suggested projects are listed at <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/">http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/</a>. </body></html>