Breaking up enormous source files

Ansgar Esztermann ansgar@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
Thu Feb 20 15:24:00 GMT 2003


On 20 Feb 2003, Steven Bosscher 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, that would certainly happen.
However, I could just start with a different file, say, expr.c.

Ansgar

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