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Question about reworking internals manual
- From: Jerry Quinn <jlquinn at optonline dot net>
- To: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:08:57 -0500
- Subject: Question about reworking internals manual
Hi, folks.
I'm looking at reworking the sections on trees in the internals manual
and had a question about how to proceed. Right now, the information is
spread between the GENERIC chapter and Trees chapter. The Trees chapter
interleaves a lot of C and C++-specific info in with GENERIC info.
What I'd like to do is the following:
1) Make GENERIC the chapter that talks about the front end
representation.
2) Extract those portions of Trees that really talk about GENERIC (a
large part of it) and integrate that into the GENERIC chapter
3) Make the remainder part of a section on language-dependent trees
The problem I see is that doing the whole thing at once will make for a
large hard-to-review patch. But to do it in steps will result in an
inconsistent document until a good part of the work is done.
Any suggestions about the best way to proceed?
Thanks,
Jerry