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Re: Generated unique labels
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: Jonah <gccmail at whalesolutions dot ca>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:37:22 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: Generated unique labels
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Jonah wrote:
> Are there other assemblers which need the support, is that why it is in the
> projects file? If not, should this item be removed from the projects list so
> that developers don't spend time working on projects that are not needed.
It's in the projects list because it was in the old PROJECTS file in the
distribution and we were moving miscellaneous text files in the
distribution into the web pages or main documentation. The list of stuff
from the old PROJECTS file needs reviewing by people with long (pre-EGCS)
historical familiarity with GCC internals to remove what's no longer
relevant. Likewise the list from the old PROBLEMS file which is even
worse. But both the main projects list and the list for beginners need
reviewing generally.
I don't think any of the proposed extensions from the old PROJECTS file
are now desirable. They date from when GCC was doing its own version of
"embrace and extend" rather than needing extensions to be very well
justified in terms of increased expressive power, clear documentation and
well-defined interactions with all standard features and other extensions.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk