documentation of trees vs RTL

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Fergus Henderson wrote:

> So, I think it would be good to have better documentation of GCC's overall
> design in (the implementors' section of) the manual.  Last time I looked,
> there was a chapter titled "RTL", but very little mention of the tree
> data structure.

The overall design is somewhat documented in the chapter on passes and 
files of the compiler (which Daniel Berlin is updating).

The GNU COBOL compiler's manual includes a chapter on writing a compiler
front end, which needs to be updated, moved into the main GCC tree and
merged with the existing c-tree.texi documentation.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk