Re: Moving code generation from gcc 4.3.0 to gcc 12?

[Sid Maxwell <srmaxwell3@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 4:11 PM Segher Boessenkool <
segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 03:01:58PM -0400, Sid Maxwell wrote:
> > Of course, I should've thought of that.  Thank you, Arsen!
>
> [ Please don't top-post. ]
>
> ...
>
> Not in the info format, those are binary files (.info files).  Instead,
> the source code (in the doc/ directory) has the documentation in TeXinfo
> format (.texi files).
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ has all versions going back to 2.95.3,
> just look a bit further down?  :-)
>
> But yeah, just   git log -p gcc/doc/   will tell you most.  Maybe not in
> the best presentation for what you need -- but usually it is best to
> have multiple representations and use what most suitable in any
> particular situation :-)
>
>
> Segher
>

(Regarding top posting: I blame GMail, but only because I wasn't paying
attention.)

Thanks for the explanation.  I'd looked at the online docs, but didn't see
"internals" mentioned except under "Current Development".  Until you
mentioned .info/.texi, it hadn't occurred to me to look for gccint.texi.
:-)

-+- Sid