[Bug web/33057] New: version-independent url for documentation

["karl at freefriends dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

I could not find a generic url by which to get to the current version of the
GCC documentation -- all the paths I found under http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
had a version number (e.g., 4.2.1) embedded.

Is there such a generic url?  If not, I'd like to request that one be set up.
Without one, making cross-manual references from other GNU packages is highly
problematic.

As a suggestion, perhaps http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/manual/ (the usual
location) could map to the current docs, e.g.,
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.2.1/, so that a url like
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/manual/cpp/Variadic-Macros.html would map to
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.2.1/cpp/Variadic-Macros.html.  (This
particular node was/is the target of a cross-manual link in libc that a user
noticed was broken.  There are lots more, of course.)

Thanks,
Karl


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           Summary: version-independent url for documentation
           Product: gcc
           Version: unknown
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: web
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: karl at freefriends dot org


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33057