Official Announcement

GCC Developer's Summit

May 25-27th, 2003

Ottawa, Canada

We are happy to announce that the GCC Developer's Summit is now officially going ahead and will take place from May 25th to May 27th, 2003 in Ottawa, Canada. Community support for the event has been excellent and we hope to be able to use the time at the Summit to the advantage of the entire project. We are proud to announce as well that Richard T. Henderson will be presenting the event keynote address.

We are now soliciting content, the Call for Participation has been published at http://www.gccsummit.org/2003/cfp.php and contains the formal details. Our plan is to run two concurrent tracks one focusing on GCC internals, and one for GCC users. Examples of the kind of topics we're looking for in the internals track would include; details on specific ports such as IA64 and X86-64, new features in the tree-SSA branch, new features in the rtlopt branch, details of the new register allocator, and similar. For the users track we would be looking to address topics such as the details on the new C++ parser, precompiled header support, SIMD support and how to use it, the compilercache and how to use it, details on using GCC with RTEMS, and similar topics.

We also have space for tutorials, working group meetings, brainstorming sessions, and other similar tasks best addressed in person.

The goal of the event is to provide meaningful content relevant to the attendees and advance the overall understanding of the GCC project. Your input and feedback is a key component in ensuring that this goal is met. If there is something you feel should be happening please speak up and we'll do our best to help make sure it does. Direct feedback should be sent to ajh@gccsummit.org and will be discussed with the organizing committee promptly, we welcome all kinds of feedback.

More details are available at the Summit website at http://www.gccsummit.org/ and we strongly recommend that everyone interested join the Announcement mailing list at http://lists.gccsummit.org/mailman/listinfo/gccsummit-announce to keep informed.

We would like to also take this time to thank everyone who has worked on GCC for their very significant contributions to Free Software and to software engineering in general we feel strongly that GCC deserves significantly more credit and hope to do what we can.

In this context we take GCC to refer to the entire GNU Compiler Collection.