GCC help

Jim Wilson wilson@specifixinc.com
Thu Dec 4 20:10:00 GMT 2003


George Ciobanu wrote:
> I want to study the GCC internals (i'm a gcc internals beginner - so please
> be pacient with me, as i know this question is not new nor very
> challenging ). Is there any docs avalaible on how the GNU compiler works as
> a whole ? (Besides the docs already listed on the site)

There are extensive docs in the gcc/doc directory.  These docs aren't 
very readable, but they have a lot of useful info in them.  These docs 
are also available on the web site.

> P.S. Where is type tree defined ?

In coretypes.h in current sources, tree.h in older sources.  You will 
have to look at tree.h in either case.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com



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