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Re: "Documentation by paper"

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
To: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>,paolo dot bonzini at polimi dot it, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:26:47 -0500
Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
References: <10402031550.AA21796@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <200402031700.56311.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>

Steven Bosscher wrote:

You can leave out an explanation of what a dominator is and still
be self-contained.  What's next, do we have to explain what a finite
automaton is in the sources of GCC?


It's definitely worth defining what a dominator is, since this is
indeed a term that is not used in absolutely identical manner by
all compiler papers. You will certainly see in such a paper that
terms like this are typically defined. Since papers don't see fit
to assume that everyone knows the terminology, I hardly think that
gcc can take a different position :-)

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