Anyways, So 10th of December is the 30th marriage anniversary of my parents. Its a friday and therefore a working day for me and as has been the case for the past 6 years I will not be at home with them this year too . I have never been a part of the celebrations and this year will be no different. Actually, I am doubtful that they even celebrate.

Like all others I too love my parents . I remember my mischiefs with them. The pranks that I used to play to make them fight each other and then slowly vanish from the scene only for them to realize that it was a prank. The teasing conversations that I used to have whenever I wanted to break any news to them. I remember the small gifts that they gave me. My mom used to take me to an ice cream parlor once every year in the summer vacations as a gift that I  passed and advanced to the next year . The tradition continued till the end of engineering. My Dad once gifted me Rs.5000 all as brand new Rs.5 coins. ( I am a numismatist, thats why). He carried that bag full of coins for nearly three hours while he was heading for home from a different town. I still have all those coins with me. There have been some difficult moments too. I remember my hands full of dad’s blood when he was hospitalized three years ago. I remember supporting my mom when she was suffering from cytica (I don’t know the spelling. Its some kind of a bone disease and she was unable to walk). It happened during one of my school exams. I remember her applying cream on my hands when I had accidently fallen in a container of hot milk. I was only 6 years old then.I have had so many such moments with them that I can clearly remember of.

Its kind of different being their son. I have gone out alone with my parents for lunch or dinner in a hotel only twice in my whole life. I have never seen a movie with them alone in a theater ever. We have never celebrated anyone’s birthday by cutting a cake. The most that I have asked my mom for a birthday gift is to cook me pyaaz fry and palak paneer. And although I am not proud of myself when I put this but I have never even given them a gift on their birthdays or anniversaries. In a way I have liked this. With all the attachment that I have with my parents it has also enabled me to detach myself from them easily. I have become fiercely independent. In fact, the only thing for which I rely on them these days is laundry

I am pretty sure that my parents will never read this. They don’t even know what a blog means neither do they know that I have one. They don’t even expect me to write about them and that too in public, and that too relatively positive . They will just continue looking upon me as their loving, unruly and stupid son

Happy Marriage Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

Cheers

X

Sandy

Maybe I just need to start with something that is there in my mind currently. I was just seeing a movie – ‘Happy days’ , a telugu movie, for the first time. Pretty nice movie. Brought back memories of  college (minus the girlfriends part ) . Happy days indeed they were. Having said that, things are working out quite well at Oneirix Labs too. Work is amazing. The people are the best and the lectures are mind blowing. I am a bit slow to grasp them and there already have been occasional slip ups from my side. I have fumbled whenever I have been asked a tricky question. Feels like I am back in college. Feels I am a kid again. I sure need to  buckle and cogitate over the lectures more. Its been quite fun too. Lots of jokes while eating lunch. Intense discussions too at times. Went to a movie also with all the colleagues in office last week – ‘The Social Network’. Nice movie actually.

There are quite a few things I have taken up recently. Have slowly begun work on the gimple fe project that I had to stall for a few days after I joined Oneirix Labs. Been back into hacking gcc source code and working on the parser. Maybe a patch or two in a couple of days. And maybe a post on it too. There is also a small android project  that I am now a part of (self- initiated actually with a few friends). There is nothing concrete about it and therefore not much to talk about. I have started attending a few conferences too. Attended the tech weekend last week. Will be attending the upcoming html5 session too. Good to be staying updated with the latest technologies. Watching a few movies too just for a change at home.

Things it seems are shaping well. Its been an amazing year. There is only one thing that I am doing wrong currently. Its a tempting thing to do but its bad anyways. Need to get that out of the system quickly. Mental thing actually. Hope I get around it quickly. Wait…Sure I will

Oops… I see no theme in the post but mere rambling. Lots of too’s in it too. Really wrote just for the heck of it

Cheers

X

Sandy

I pedal through my housing society lane, hearing the cooing of the pigeons making my way through the narrow,desolate lane, seeing a few auto rickshaw drivers on reaching the end reading the newspaper, some still sleeping on the seat with their mouths open. It brings out my first smile of the day.

I ride through the streets seeing school going children on their bicycles yawning, kicking each others bicycles mischievously. The office going adults driving their motorbikes with a frown on their face expressing their unwillingness to go to office. Sometimes I stop at the signal. A small child in a car trying to stand upright on his feet waves at me. I wave back. He is a toddler probably only a year old. He smiles. I can see his tiny, broken teeth. I capture the moment.Brings out one more smile on my face.

I see a old man every morning in his shorts and a T-shirt having a morning walk. Sweat all over his face. Trying to walk as briskly as possible. I over pace him on my bicycle. I turn around mischievously to subtly assert my win. He does not notice me. He is occupied fully in walking. I capture the moment again. I smile once again.

Within 7-8 mins, I reach my office and each day I take the first minute in office to reminisce my 7-8 minute ride, to think about those moments. They make my day

Hi Sandeep Soni,

We have processed the evaluation for your project named Development of GIMPLE FE with GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.

Congratulations, from our data it seems that you have successfully passed the Final Evaluations. Please contact your mentor to discuss the results of your evaluation and to plan your goals and development plan for the rest of the program

Currently, its into the recognizing stage of basic gimple tuples and the extended type tuples. More on it can be found on http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GimpleFrontEnd . I tend to keep the wiki page more updated than my blog.  Sorry, for it being so cluttered. I will be making it more readable soon (Hopefully ).

GSoC is about to get over (I am eager to add a post on my experience in GSoC soon) but I am going to continue my work on this front end. Maybe it will be added in the trunk for the 4.7 release (Fingers crossed).

Cheers

X

Sandy

I got an offer to work in the company I always wanted to , just today. I was planning to have a shot at it for almost an year. One good day, I heard they were willing to include a few in their mix. I knew instantly that this was my shot. I applied, appeared for their interviews, waited patiently for each of their calls, prepared hard for each of their interviews etc. In all, one thing led to another and just today I got lucky. In a few days I will join them. To work, to learn and to explore. I hope I make the most of it.

In the past few days almost all of my friends joined their respective companies while I waited patiently to have a crack at this opportunity. Well, actually, I waited really to bide more time to work on a challenging project that I am doing currently and had requested a late joining to the other companies which offered me. But while doing that I missed the bandwagon of all my friends who joined their respective companies during this time. So as much as I was enjoying doing my project work I was also slightly frustrated at not having been part of all this action. In a few days time, when I join, I will finally not feel left out.

A few days earlier a good friend asked me how I was doing in my new world, assuming since I was out of college that I was working in some company. I did not have an answer since I had not joined then. In a few days I’ll be joining. I don’t know how I’ ll fare there. Would it be as joyous as the ride so far? Don’t know. Eager to find out. And as that friend put it, I am getting ready to enter in a ….NEW WORLD !!!

Cheers

X

Sandy

Its funny how it all started for me. I always wanted to be an Economics graduate or a Chartered Accountant while I grew up. Unfortunately, my parents forced me to consider science as an option. The hidden agenda, I knew though, was to force me to follow the lines of my brother and be a doctor. I did yield to take Science as an option but I was not made for being a doctor. Much to the despair of my parents, I considered only engineering as a viable option. Slowly but surely though, my love for engineering grew and I followed passionately, like many others in this world, to become an engineer.

It was not hunky dory right from the start. I yearned for getting admissions in COEP Pune in the Computers course but fell just a few marks short (4 to be precise).I did secure admissions in COEP mechanical course but neither the college nor the course really made me happy. Like a ray of hope I got admissions in an equally good college in Pune, PICT. (Actually, as far as I am concerned, for Computers, it is way better) And thus the wheel was set in motion for a fantastic ride in the last four years.

In the first year, I had to acclimatize with this place.New place, new things, new friends. Fortunately, I made a lot of friends and the transition came quite easily to me. I remember some very special moments from the first year. The dangerous bus (PMT) rides that I had to take each day to reach college (Most of the time while I was IN the bus, I was actually hanging OUTSIDE it, holding the door ), the bicycle rides that I had to take to reach my tuitions in the morning at 6′ O clock, the puzzles that I, along with my friends, solved each day (We solved them right when the professor took the class), the rollicking fun in the workshop, the first PL, the first Night Out for studying, that one whole night that me and my friends talked about ghosts (Till 7 in the morning!!), the first University paper, the goosebumps at the time the results were out etc etc. It simply was the most splendid year. (I should probably be saving the superlatives for the subsequent paragraphs because the years that followed were not too different in terms of experience)

In the second year, I moved into my current place near the college. I made newer friends since a lot of my friends from the previous year were from the electronics department and we could not meet much. There were moments that year too. Purchased my Computer, played a lot of computer games , the worst exams of my life (DELD paper=44 marks. I sucked in the paper) in the first semester , the best university exam in the second sem (Can’t ever forget the practical exams of Microprocessors and interfacing techniques in which the external examiner asked for a copy of my program that he wanted to keep with him). However, it was also the year when two nasty incidents took place. One, when my house was burgled and the thief got away with my Cellphone and wallet while I was sleeping. Never was I able to know who did that. The other was just when my second semester exams were about to end when my Dad was hospitalized for a severe Diabetic ailment and had to undergo a serious operation. Overall, this was a tough year and it taught me a lot of lessons about facing tough situations in real life, lessons which no professor can teach in any college.

The third year was again full of amazing moments. Got selected to work for the Amdocs Innovation lab, the fun we all had in the lab, created my own project and got some money for it, went to rural schools to teach poor kids about ‘Internet’, played FIFA each day of PL on LAN with my friends and had bets on it(I was good to start with when none of my friends played well but they soon got the better of me as they learned it).

The fourth year was perhaps the most eventful of them all.A topsy turvy ride all the way. Felt disappointed at losing out in sponsorships, had the worst result in GRE, had too many problems with my B.E project all the way but alongwith that there were some good moments too. Was one amongst four to have offered the highest pay package in campus placements,savoured the amazing ride from Pune to Goa with my friends when we went for a project competition (12 friends in one compartment playing a round of Judgement that lasted for 2 hours), the walks on the beach, the nights I played Judgement with my friends (I was the one who taught my friends the game and it became a big source of fun for all of us) won the first prize in BITS Goa and was asked by the judge to give a lecture to his students on GCC internals, got afterwards an offer to work in Pune in a reputed company.

PICT has been one hell of an experience!!

One of my favourite books says that for any moment in life there is a song that captures that moment. I always felt a song from Green day called Good Riddance (one of my favourites) very apt for college life. Here goes:

Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test
and don’t ask why.

It’s not a question
but a lesson learned in time.

It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.

Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.

Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.

For what it’s worth,
it was worth all the while.

It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It’s something unpredictable
but in the end it’s right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

The last four years have gone like a wind only to leave the sweet fragrance it bought along to be imbued in my senses and memories etched in my mind forever. Its been a fun filled four years and now there is the time for one last cheer. Aawaaaz konacha…PICTcha!!!!!

Cheers

X

Sandy

Internally LTO is done in GCC by invoking the LTO front end. The LTO front end is concerned with writing and reading GIMPLE in an object file. GIMPLE is the IL (Intermediate language) used by GCC for all the optimizations. Basically what the LTO FE does is to Pickle and Unpickle (Used in Compiler lexicon in a similar sense as Marshalling and Unmarshalling in RPC procedures) and then continue with the rest of the compilation pipeline.

Currently, the LTO FE is in heavy development. I am currently working on building a GIMPLE FE which will use much the same infrastructure that is provided by LTO FE and will have the ability to convert bytestream GIMPLE into textual GIMPLE and parse it. In the coming days, as I get started with the project, I will file posts under this category the updates of the project.

I will try, in the posts under this category, to add some documentation about the LTO FE which can be helpful for any future (and existing) volunteer like me.

Cheers

X

Sandy

I have found it, rather funnily, that I have always underperformed whenever there are more expectations from me.My best has always come when nobody expected anything from me.”Surprise, Surprise!!! Look who Did it?”. Yeah..that would be me. Perhaps, it has got to do a little bit about the way I think about myself, always wanting to be the underdog and not a favourite.

So here I am, when someone expects me to come out with flying colours in any exam, I have inevitably failed (My GRE debacle is at the back of my mind when I write this). As a sportsmen when someone expected me to be the one who will guide my team to victory, I have flinched (I remember a match where my team needed 3 runs to win from 4 balls and I could not get them) And the one person in this whole world who really expected me to be a doctor than an engineer, I failed him too (Well that was my Dad).

It has also been the other way around.Things that I have expected have also not been a reality for me.There have been so many things that I have longed for but not all have been met with. So When I really expected and yearned to be part of a really cool company, I miserably failed.(ThoughtWorks) When I expected MI to win the IPL this year, that was not the case to be. (There could have been a better example in this place but this is just too fresh in my mind).Whenever I have yearned something good to happen to me either it has not happened or it has just not happened the way I would have liked it to happen.

Ah…for once I hope a few things happen to me as per my expectations and that I can live up to others’ expectations too.

Till then, I don’t know what really to expect.But living always in the hope that the maxim expect the unexpected will come true for me.

Cheers

X

Sandy

PS: In the first paragraph, I was just exaggerating a tad .I usually dont get frightened (OMG…my keyboard is making strange noises in the middle of the night )

PPS: Somehow I also expect people to remark about this post with “WTH is this?” comments.It will only be an irony if that does not happen

UPDATE: For a change, in less than 24 hours from writing this post a very good thing that I longed for happened to me.I really wanted that to happen.It was somewhat expected.Most Happy

I have always dreamed to go very high, I wonder why.

To have wings that can make me fly, I wonder why.

To prove everyone that the limit is not the sky, I wonder why.

Never have I wanted to do this alone,  but instead with an ally, I wonder why.

Someone who can make my life as sweet as an apple pie,I wonder why.

Or sometimes just lend me the shoulder to fall back upon and simply cry,I wonder why.

But I have never had the courage to find such an Eye, I wonder why.

I know its my hesitancy, Oh I am so shy, I wonder why.

I know I can’t hide it, but I wish I could lie, I wonder why.

If there is some hope for me, an ordinary guy,

I wish I can find someone before I say my goodbye,

Work together and live all the dreams thereby,

And just for once, stop wondering Why.

cheers

X

Sandy

PS:  These words just came naturally to my lips some days ago. And I wonder why