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Re: gcc documentation on http://gcc.gnu.org
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Maksim wrote:
> I'd like to thank you for making the gcc website a great resource for all
> things GCC. One minor suggestion, however: in the later versions of GCC
> (beginning with docs of 3.1.1 on the website), the texinfo documentation
> on the compiler is split into two parts. There is gcc.texi and
> gccint.texi. Your website has an HTML-ized version of gcc.texi, but not
> gccint.texi. This wasn't an issue for GCC documentation versions 3.0.4
We deliberately don't link to the internals manuals for releases, only for
mainline, since new development should not be based on release branches
but rather on mainline. If you're backporting to a release branch with
significantly different internals a fix already made on mainline, you know
what you're doing and can easily use the documentation on that branch.
(We also only link to documentation for the latest release on each release
branch, not the previous point releases, but that's to avoid cluttering
the page with links to almost-duplicate manuals. Both the internals
manuals for releases, and the manuals for point releases before the last
on each release branch, are in fact there; you need only enter the obvious
URLs manually.)
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk