Breaking up enormous source files

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Feb-2003, Steven Bosscher <s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> > I have picked fold-const.c for now and intend to work my way through
> > the list. However, I have a few questions:
> 
> Be careful with fold-const.c.  Jeff Law broke out big chunks from fold()
> to smaller functions on the tree-ssa branch, but unfortunately that work
> is not on the mainline.  Having two people working on one big file in
> different branches usually means "merge trouble".

Yes.  I suggest starting with a different file.

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