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Re: Trivial toplev.c patch
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Trivial toplev.c patch
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:43:21 +0100 (BST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Richard Kenner wrote:
> It has been impossible for several months simply to work out what the
> interface of ASM_OUTPUT_INTERNAL_LABEL is supposed to be. With a
> function in the target structure and a documented prototype, this
> ambiguity cannot arise.
>
> I'm confused: what you mention sounds like a documentation issue, not
> a technical problem.
I don't think you can separate documentation and technical issues like
that. One design makes it more likely than another that the documented
interface, the callers of that interface, the definitions of macros or
functions that are supposed to implement the interface, and the
understanding people have of the interface agree with each other.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk