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Re: "Documentation by paper"
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: ian at wasabisystems dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 04 14:27:23 EST
- Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
An organized reference to gcc implementation internals would be very
useful. But that's not what we get from documentation extracted from
the source code. What we get is a disorganized set of reference
information. It tells you the information that's easy to find out in
various other ways, but it doesn't tell you what you really need to
know, which is the implicit assumptions and the underlying ideas.
That's exactly my point.