Frontend documentation

[Philip Herron]

Andi and i wrote a fairly comprehensive front-end guide a few years
ago but it was never merged in probably hard to review since its
subjective but yeah gcc really needs this. I think the main problem is
the boiler plate needed.

So when writing a tutorial or documentation there is a lot of boiler
plate to go over and project structure to setup and then from there
learning GENERIC takes time. This is what we had but i really want to
do it all again so much.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-09/msg00312/front-end-doc.patch

On 12 May 2014 13:05, Paulo Matos <pmatos@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like suggestions about on how to go about writing a frontend tutorial for GCC.
> My first instinct is to grab the example language used in LLVM's tutorial (kaleidoscope) and write a frontend for it in GCC. However I am open to other suggestions.
>
> My idea is to write it using markup and continuously post it online (using markup [git] -> html) where people can comment on it as I write (comments would be done on the markup through github). However I am also happy to use some other system.
>
> Finally if generally people think this is not relevant and instead should spend my time doing something else, I would be happy to know about it ahead of time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paulo Matos
>
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