How to understand gcc source code?

[Abhijat Vichare]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 16:59 +0800, =?GB2312?B?wbqI0g==?= wrote:

> But still, I cannot manage the source code of gcc.
> I don't know how to start reading it.

You can try: http://www.cfdvs.iitb.ac.in/~amv/gcc-int-docs/#gccdocs

> Last night I want to read the code of symbol table used in gcc, I searched in
> google, I greped in the source code. At last, I still have no idea
> where those code is.

AFAIK, GCC does not use conventional symbol table. Information about the
"properties" of a symbol are in nodes of the AST.

HTH,

All the best.

- amv

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