RFC: Moving C to its own directory

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, David O'Brien wrote:

> One typically isn't doing a full checkout using -D to build the product
> -- that's what tags (as in co -r <TAG>) are for.  The most typical use of
> -D is in "cvs diff -D <list of files>" and you know the particular file
> you want to see the differences in date in.

The typical use of -D for GCC is binary search for when regressions were
introduced.

The GCC build process *does* in certain cases incorporate subdirectories
dropped into the tree, that were not in the original tree of that version,
into the build - by design, it does this for language front end
directories if they have the right files in them.

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