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Re: 3.0 bogus file information in debugging output
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, "gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk" <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, "law at redhat dot com" <law at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:19:35 -0800
- Subject: Re: 3.0 bogus file information in debugging output
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201310056490.21385-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
--On Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:57:58 AM +0000 "Joseph S. Myers"
<jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
>> I also don't see much point in using the first person in comments in
>> GCC; we'll never know who's talking a little later. So, why write:
>
> Should we do something about the first person comments in the manual,
> e.g. "Coming as I do from a Lisp background, ..."? I don't think they
> really fit well in a coherent technical manual.
Yes, we should, and no, they don't.
By all means, feel free to clean this stuff up.
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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