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Re: Breaking up enormous source files
- From: Ansgar Esztermann <ansgar at thphy dot uni-duesseldorf dot de>
- To: Steven Bosscher <s dot bosscher at student dot tudelft dot nl>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, <law at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:14:46 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Breaking up enormous source files
On 20 Feb 2003, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> > I have picked fold-const.c for now and intend to work my way through
> > the list. However, I have a few questions:
>
> Be careful with fold-const.c. Jeff Law broke out big chunks from fold()
> to smaller functions on the tree-ssa branch, but unfortunately that work
> is not on the mainline. Having two people working on one big file in
> different branches usually means "merge trouble".
Yes, that would certainly happen.
However, I could just start with a different file, say, expr.c.
Ansgar
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