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Re: "Documentation by paper"
- From: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at superh dot com>
- To: dberlin at dberlin dot org (Daniel Berlin)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:48:59 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: "Documentation by paper"
> Someone mentioned something that wasn't related to the thread, which is
> that they thought they read in a paper that a certain algorithm
> required useless phi nodes.
> I responded that I had provided evidence to contradict this.
> It had nothing to do with documentation per se, actually, it was just
> dragged back into the documentation thread by someone saying the fact
> that there is no restriction where nobody would expect one, should be
> documented, which is actually a bit silly.
If there is a paper out there that deals with this algorithm -
particularly if it's a paper used to write the implementation and/or
referenced in the documentation - which states that there is such
a restriction, somebody who has read the paper will expect this restriction,
unless he has read also some other paper / email / comment / etc that
disproves or at least denies that statement.