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Re: "Documentation by paper"
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:37:20 -0700
- Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <10402031618.AA21947@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner writes:
>As an example of the sort of thing I'd expect to see, look at the Bison
>manual. Not only does it not simply leave "LALR(1)" to be looked up (and
>that's a much more well known term than those previously mentioned), it even
>defines "context-free grammar" and "symbol".
I would disagree strongly. dominators, dominator tree, SSA, value numbering,
loop tree are quite well known within the compiler community. In fact, I
would hazard a guess that it's probably just some GCC folks that don't have
a firm grasp on these concepts. They are what I would consider basic
terminology and concepts for anyone in this field.
jeff