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Re: "Documentation by paper"
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- Cc: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:39:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <200402031724.10531.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>, Steven Bosscher
writes:
>discussion was, AFAICT, about GCC internals documentation. I honestly don't
>believe that anyone working on compiler optimizations does now
know/understand
>the concept of dominance, or DFA, and so on.
Well, certainly such people do exist (probably concentrated in the GCC
community :(. But I'm not particularly interested in trying to re-invent
what so many basic compiler texts already have done as far as explaining these
basic concepts.
> These are just computer science fundamentals. A user doesn't have to
> understand them, but any compiler writer should.
Agreed 100%.
jeff