[PATCH] Document branches
Laurent Guerby
guerby@acm.org
Thu Feb 6 21:10:00 GMT 2003
I commited the following.
I'd appreciate information on the not yet documented
branches, I'll do the web work (not that much :).
If nothing happens in a while, I'll
just remove them from the page.
Laurent
Index: cvs.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/cvs.html,v
retrieving revision 1.93
diff -u -r1.93 cvs.html
--- cvs.html 5 Feb 2003 15:27:01 -0000 1.93
+++ cvs.html 6 Feb 2003 21:05:55 -0000
@@ -93,8 +93,7 @@
already built for some systems. A partial list of these build tools
is: Autoconf, Bison, Xgettext, Automake, and Gperf.</p>
-<hr />
-<h2>Conflicts when using <code>cvs update</code></h2>
+<h3>Conflicts when using <code>cvs update</code></h3>
<p>It is not uncommon to get CVS conflict messages for some generated
files
when updating your local sources from the CVS repository. Typically such
@@ -105,7 +104,7 @@
<code>cvs update</code> again to get a new copy.</p>
-<h3>CVS tags and checkouts</h3>
+<h2>CVS tags, branches and checkouts</h2>
<p> You can check out the latest version of the GCC <em>x</em>.<em>y</em>
release branch with the following command:</p>
@@ -115,8 +114,9 @@
</p></blockquote>
<p>By changing the <code>-r</code> argument above you can check out
-particular releases or snapshots or the latest snapshot. Tags/branches
-you may want to check out include:</p>
+particular releases or snapshots or the latest snapshot.
+
+<h3>Release and snapshot branches</h3>
<ul>
<li>gcc_latest_snapshot</li>
@@ -149,12 +149,24 @@
<li>egcs_1_0_1_release</li>
<li>egcs_1_0_release</li>
<li>egcs_ss_<i>yyyymmdd</i> For snapshots prior to 19990913</li>
- <li>gnu-win32-b20-branch</li>
- <li>dfa-branch. This branch contains the insn scheduler with an
automaton
- based pipeline hazard recognizer. </li>
- <li><a href="projects/cfg.html">cfg-branch</a></li>
- <li><a href="projects/ast-optimizer.html">ast-optimizer-branch</a></li>
- <li>hammer-3_3-branch. The goal of this branch is to have a stable
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="devbranches">Development Branches</a></h3>
+
+<dl>
+
+ <dt>dfa-branch</dt>
+ <dd>This branch contains the insn scheduler with an automaton
+ based pipeline hazard recognizer. </dd>
+
+ <dt><a href="projects/cfg.html">cfg-branch</a></dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt><a href="projects/ast-optimizer.html">ast-optimizer-branch</a></dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>hammer-3_3-branch</dt>
+ <dd>The goal of this branch is to have a stable
compiler based on GCC 3.3 with improved performance for AMD's
64-bit Hammer CPUs. The branch is maintained by Jan Hubicka <<a
href="mailto:jh@suse.cz">jh@suse.cz</a>> and Andreas Jaeger
@@ -162,34 +174,108 @@
on this branch might not be appropriate for the GCC 3.3 branch due
to our policies concerning release branches. All patches will be
added to mainline CVS (for 3.4). The branch is regularly merged
- with the GCC 3.3 branch.</li>
- <li><a href="projects/tree-ssa/">tree-ssa-20020619-branch</a></li>
- <li>faster-compiler-branch: This branch is for work aimed primarily
- at making GCC itself run faster. No checkin policy has yet been
- established. See
- <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00498.html">this
- thread</a> for discussion of possible work to be done in this
- area.</li>
- <li>mips-3_4-rewrite-branch: This branch is for largish rewrites to the
- mips backend. This has a long term goal of no macro instructions and
- updating the port to the current infrastructure. Send patches to
- Eric Christopher <<a
href="mailto:echristo@redhat.com">echristo@redhat.com</a>>
- and CC: <<a
href="mailto:gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org">gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org</a>>.</li>
- <li>gomp-01-branch is a sub-branch of <a
+ with the GCC 3.3 branch.</dd>
+
+ <dt><a href="projects/tree-ssa/">tree-ssa-20020619-branch</a></dt>
+ <dd>Work on implementing SSA analysis and optimization for trees
+ is done in this branch.</dd>
+
+ <dt>faster-compiler-branch</dd>
+ <dd>This branch is for work aimed primarily
+ at making GCC itself run faster. No checkin policy has yet been
+ established. See
+ <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00498.html">this
+ thread</a> for discussion of possible work to be done in this
+ area.</dd>
+
+ <dt>mips-3_4-rewrite-branch</dd>
+ <dd>This branch is for largish rewrites to the
+ mips backend. This has a long term goal of no macro instructions and
+ updating the port to the current infrastructure. Send patches to
+ Eric Christopher <<a
href="mailto:echristo@redhat.com">echristo@redhat.com</a>>
+ and CC: <<a
href="mailto:gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org">gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org</a>>.</dd>
+
+ <dt>gomp-01-branch</dt>
+ <dd>This is a sub-branch of <a
href="projects/tree-ssa/">tree-ssa-20020619-branch</a> used by
- the <a
- href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gomp/">GOMP</a>
- project to implement <a
- href="http://www.openmp.org/">OpenMP</a> in GCC. The check-in
+ the <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gomp/">GOMP</a>
+ project to implement <a href="http://www.openmp.org/">OpenMP</a> in
GCC. The check-in
policies are the same as in the tree-ssa branch: Patches
- should be sent to <a
- href="mailto:gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org">gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org</a>
+ should be sent to <a
href="mailto:gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org">gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org</a>
and marked with <code>[gomp-branch]</code> in the subject.
- This branch is maintained by <a
- href="mailto:dnovillo@redhat.com">Diego Novillo
- <dnovillo@redhat.com></a>.</li>
-</ul>
+ This branch is maintained by <a
href="mailto:dnovillo@redhat.com">Diego Novillo
+ <dnovillo@redhat.com></a>.</dd>
+
+ <dt>new-regalloc-branch</dt>
+ <dd>Daniel Berlin and Michael Matz are working on an implementation of a
+ graph-coloring register allocator on this branch. It is known to
bootstrap
+ under x86-linux and ppc-linux.</dd>
+
+ <dt><a href="projects/cfg.html">cfg-branch</a></dt>
+ <dd>This branch is created to develop and
+ test infrastructure for easier writing of new optimizations. Some new
+ passes (such as superblock formation, loop peeling, web construction,
+ branch combining etc.) are being implemented there.</dd>
+
+ <dt>rtlopt-branch</dt>
+ <dd>This branch is equivalent to the cfg-branch with the exception
that it
+ is based on gcc-pre3.4 tree, instead of gcc-pre3.3 cfg-branch is
based on.</dd>
+
+ <dt>bnw-simple-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>condexec-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>cxx-reflection-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>cygwin-mingw-v2-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>fixincl-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>gnu-win32-b20-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>itanium-sched-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>meissner-ppc-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>merged-arm-thumb-backend-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>new-abi-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>pchgc-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>pchmerge-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>subreg-byte-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>tree-serialize-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>x86-64-branch</dt>
+ <dd></dd>
+
+ <dt>cp-parser-branch</dt>
+ <dd>This branch has been merged into the mainline.</dd>
+
+ <dt>cp-parser-branch-2</dt>
+ <dd>This branch has been merged into the mainline.</dd>
+
+ <dt>pch-branch</dt>
+ <dd>This branch has been merged into the mainline.</dd>
+</dl>
<h2><a name="wwwdocs">Web pages</a></h2>
Index: projects/index.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/projects/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -r1.34 index.html
--- projects/index.html 3 Jan 2003 22:55:35 -0000 1.34
+++ projects/index.html 6 Feb 2003 21:05:59 -0000
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
<li><a href="#projects_for_the_gcc_web_pages">Projects for the GCC web
pages</a></li>
<li><a href="#work_in_progress">Work in progress</a>
<ul>
+<li><a href="#development_branches">Development Branches</a></li>
<li><a href="#bounds_checking_with_bounded_pointers">Bounds Checking
with Bounded Pointers</a></li>
<li><a href="#new_register_allocator">New register allocator</a></li>
<li><a href="#ssa_for_trees">SSA for trees</a></li>
@@ -101,26 +102,13 @@
<h2><a name="work_in_progress">Work in progress</a></h2>
<p>Different projects that are in progress.</p>
+<h3><a name="development_branches">Development Branches</a></h3>
+<p>There are several <a href="../cvs.html#devbranches">development
branches</a>
+pursuing various goals.</p>
+
<h3><a name="bounds_checking_with_bounded_pointers">Bounds Checking
with Bounded Pointers</a></h3>
<p>There is a separate page for <a
href="bp/main.html">Bounds Checking with Bounded Pointers</a>.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="new_register_allocator">New register allocator</a></h3>
-<p>Daniel Berlin and Michael Matz are working on an implementation of
-a graph-coloring register allocator. A branch is created in CVS with
-the tag <code>new-regalloc-branch</code>. It is known to bootstrap
-under x86-linux and ppc-linux.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="ssa_for_trees">SSA for trees</a></h3>
-<p>Diego Novillo is working on implementing
-<a href="tree-ssa/">SSA analysis and optimization for trees</a>.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="cfgbranch">CFG branch</a></h3>
-<p>The <a href="cfg.html">cfg branch</a> is created to develop and
-test infrastructure for easier writing of new optimizations. Some new
-passes (such as superblock formation, loop peeling, web construction,
-branch combining etc.) are being implemented there.</p>
-
<h3><a name="value_range_propagation_pass">Value range propagation
pass</a></h3>
<p>John Wehle (john@feith.com) implemented a <a
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