immediate operands without dollar sign for inline asm

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/18/2013 05:45 AM, dw wrote:
> 
>>> I haven't had much (actually any) response from the gcc doc people about
>>> this effort.
>> I responded.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't realize you were on the doc team.  Reading the 
> maintainers list, I was expecting Gerald or Joseph.

I'm not on the doc team.  However, if we can get the technical
content right it shouldn't be too hard to get your changes in.

>> I reviewed part of it, and there were significant
>> technical inaccuracies that had to be addressed before the changes
>> were considered for inclusion.
> 
> Yes, you did make a couple comments regarding a brief section of the 
> docs.  However, after I corrected those issues, you were no longer 
> responsive.  Are you ready to provide additional feedback?
> 
> Other comments I have received from this work (here and elsewhere) have 
> been generally positive.  While I don't believe any of these people have 
> the same in-depth technical knowledge of gcc that you do, the impression 
> I got was that this work was seen as a huge improvement over the 
> existing docs.

To some extent it was, but there were still problems and I ran
out of time.

> If you are willing to take the time to review this work, I would be 
> interested in any feedback you'd care to give.  However if you are going 
> to review this, give me a day or two to bring them up to speed.  I'd 
> want to sync it with the current builds, and give it one last read to 
> see if letting this sit for 8 months (yes, it has been nearly that long) 
> gives me any new perspective.

In GCCland 8 months is not a long time.  :-)

> After that, just let me know what feedback process works best for you:  
> Sending emails, me providing you the texi file so you can make changes 
> directly, phone call, etc.

As I said, it'll have to be formally approved by a docs maintainer,
but I'm happy to help knock it into shape if you like.

Andrew.