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Re: EGCS Installation
- To: "John Butler" <johnb at sandy dot force9 dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: EGCS Installation
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:06:22 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199808250551.WAA00775@cygnus.com>you write:
> Also, could anyone give me some pointers to info on some of the internal
> workings of the compiler. For the moment, I'm just curious :) But if I know
> /how/ the copmiler does things, it will probably help me writing cleaner
> code, and it may mean that I contribute some way to the egcs development
> (Don't hold me to this, though <grin>).
Well, the internal representation and a brief high level description
of the compiler can be found in the gcc manual which is installed
in gnu-info form during the install process.
To understand the nuts and bolts you have to actually read the code
though :-)
jeff