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Re: Start of guide to writing optimizations for gcc
- From: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:33:10 -0500
- Subject: Re: Start of guide to writing optimizations for gcc
On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 12:09 AM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>> I put the start of a guide to writing optimizations for gcc at
>>
>> http://www.dberlin.org/gccopt
>
> How about doing this as part of the GCC project, i.e. as part of
> gcc documentation? If you think "well, maybe later", then later
> you'd have problems getting assignments and whatnot. ... which
> might be part of the reason you're not doing this as part of
> GCC.
Yup.
I'm more concerned with getting a good guide than getting copyright
assignments.
> (That and docbook vs. texinfo.)
> The copyright issue is of
> course still there, but nobody will notice until it blows up
> (perhaps when you want to publish it in paper format).
These problems generally rear their ugly head because somebody signs a
contract without getting it looked at by a lawyer first, making
assumptions as to the meaning of various terms, etc.
I've actually had books published before, and even then (I was 16 at the
time) I had the contracts they wanted me to sign looked over and changed
slightly by a lawyer.
> Then
> again, IANAL and I'm not even the one of us studying law. :-)
>
:)