organization of optimization options in manual

David Wohlferd dw@LimeGreenSocks.com
Sat Jan 17 22:08:00 GMT 2015


On 1/17/2015 12:13 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> BTW, as a GCC user I'm also very frustrated by the (lack of) 
> organization in the extensions chapter; the information about 
> attributes and built-in functions is all mixed up with sections on 
> random syntactic extensions like "Dollar Signs in Identifier Names", 
> etc. Maybe somebody else could work on a proposal for reordering the 
> material in that chapter in parallel?

I actually took a shot at this a while back, but didn't think anyone 
would be interested.  60+ items in an unordered list seemed a bit much 
for human consumption.  Even when you *know* something is on the page it 
can be hard to find.

Let me dig that back out and post it here in a new thread.

dw



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