"Documentation by paper"

[law@redhat.com]

In message <200402031724.10531.s.bosscher@student.tudelft.nl>, Steven Bosscher 
writes:
 >discussion was, AFAICT, about GCC internals documentation.  I honestly don't
 >believe that anyone working on compiler optimizations does now 
know/understand
 >the concept of dominance, or DFA, and so on.
Well, certainly such people do exist (probably concentrated in the GCC
community :(.  But I'm not particularly interested in trying to re-invent
what so many basic compiler texts already have done as far as explaining these
basic concepts.


 > These are just computer science fundamentals.  A user doesn't have to
 > understand them, but any compiler writer should.
Agreed 100%.


jeff