[PATCH 3/3] Document my gcc 8 changes for the website

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Sun Mar 18 23:20:00 GMT 2018


On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, David Malcolm wrote:
> This patch documents various improvements in GCC 8 for our website.

Wow.

> There are lots of examples of colorized output from GCC (generated
> using ansi2html)

Wow^2.  That must have been a lot of work!  (Both improving the 
diagnostics as well as creating this colorful documentation!)

> +<p>The libgccjit API gained four new entrypoints:</p>

Would that better be "entry points"?

> +  <li>Plugins can now register a callback hook for when comments are
> +    encountered by the C and C++ compiler, allowing e.g. for plugins
> +    to handle documentation markup in code comments.

"compilers"?

And "e.g. allowing" or perhaps "allowing for plugins...among others"?

> +  <li>The gdbinit support script for debugging gcc now has a

"GCC"

> +  <li>The API for creating fix-it hints now supports newlines, and for
> +    emitting mutually-incompatible fix-it hints for one diagnostic.

Just "mutually incompatible"?

Definitely okay, just consider the feedback above, please.  Thank you!

Gerald



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