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Re: Useless ChangeLog entries
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Useless ChangeLog entries
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 00 14:49:53 EST
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Generally, the technical bits about why something changed belong as
comments in the code.
I concur.
And I also note that those comments should be "time-independent" and
say why things are the way they are and not, in general, a history of
all the code that was ever at that location. The latter type of comments
take a lot of time to read and usually confuse more than clarify.