"Documentation by paper"

[Steven Bosscher]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 16:50, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     Which you have never read (at least a modern one), if you do not know
>     what a dominator is.  My first compiler course, which used only part
>     of Appel's "Modern compiler implementation" (which is nowhere near in
>     depth with respect to Muchnick or Morgan) did teach dominators.
>
> Correct.  My last compiler course was well over a decade ago.
>
>     I'd love gcc to become a free compiler text, but it is not its purpose.
>
> Of course not, but it's always useful to define each term used at least
> to some extent.  GCC has always been pretty self-contained and I see no
> reason to change that policy at this point.

You can leave out an explanation of what a dominator is and still
be self-contained.  What's next, do we have to explain what a finite
automaton is in the sources of GCC?

Gr.
Steven