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Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline
On Saturday 17 January 2004 18:50, Diego Novillo wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 06:16, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > One key advantage of tree-ssa (as I see it) is a cleaned-up front-end
> > interface. As such it is a golden opportunity for a *documented*
> > front-end interface,
>
> Agreed. We already have bits and pieces of documentation spread about
> in papers and an initial GIMPLE documentation that Steven Bosscher
> contributed last year.
>
> I will take care of collecting all in a single document that explains
> the FE interfaces and the optimization infrastructure. Perhaps I could
> even organize a talk about this for the next GCC Summit.
I also have an updated cfg.texi. I (and others) can distill other
documentation from the source files if the FSF (or the people who
contributed those source files) give us permission to put the extracted
text under the GFDL. There is a lot of good comment in the code that
can be formatted for the manual.
Gr.
Steven