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Re: [PATCH] Symbol Separation

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
To: Devang Patel <dpatel at apple dot com>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 23:53:13 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Symbol Separation
References: <834B36E5-B3F4-11D7-8F1A-000393A91CAA@apple.com><Pine.BSF.4.56.0307121205450.95965@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at><907533DD-B494-11D7-AD15-000393A91CAA@apple.com>

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Devang Patel wrote:
>>>          doc
>>>          * invoke.texi: Document -fsave-repository and -grepository
>> This is not proper English, but I don't understand the patch well
>> enough to completely fix it.
> I just followed previous examples.

Sorry, I probably wasn't clear enough: the ChangeLog looks fine, it's
the invoke.texi part of the patch I was referring to.

>> Also, this is absolutely not sufficient for users to understand what
>> this enhancement is all about.  That is, the big picture is missing:
>> Why would one want to use these options?
> I want to document first paragraph from cppss.c somewhere but
> I do not know where. suggestion ?

Hmm, if nobody has a better idea, you could add some high-level
documentation to -fsave-repository and just add a reference from
-grepository to -fsave-repository.

If you send an updated patch, I'll happily have a look.

Gerald
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)   gerald@pfeifer.com   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/

References:
- [PATCH] Symbol Separation
  - From: Devang Patel
- Re: [PATCH] Symbol Separation
  - From: Gerald Pfeifer
- Re: [PATCH] Symbol Separation
  - From: Devang Patel

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