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Re: [wwwdocs] add news items for TM work
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:31:19 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [wwwdocs] add news items for TM work
- References: <4EC2ACE6.70401@redhat.com>
Hej Aldy,
thanks for doing this. It is mostly okay, I just have a minor
suggestion or two.
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Aldy Hernandez wrote:
> + The project was partially funded by
> + the <a href="http://www.velox-project.eu/";>Velox</a> project. This
> + feature is experimental and is available for C and C++ on selected
> + platforms.
Reading this I was wondering which platforms. On the other page it
says x86 and alpha; should we just use this here, or were you thinking
to keep this more marketing speak? ;-)
> Index: gcc-4.7/changes.html
> ===================================================================
> + <li>Experimental support for transactional memory has been added.
> + It includes support for the compiler, as well as a supporting
> + runtime library called <code>libitm</code>. To compile code
> + with transactional memory constructs, use
> + the <code>-fgnu-tm</code> option.
Put this under <p>...</p> as well, I think.
> + Support is currently available for the x86 and Alpha platforms.
32-bit, 64-bit x86, or both?
> + <p>
> + This work was contributed by Red Hat and was partly funded by
> + the <a href="http://www.velox-project.eu/";>Velox</a> project.
> + </p>
In the release notes we generally don't have those acknowledgements,
only in the News section.
Gerald