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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	Geoffrey Keating <gkeating@apple.com>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: move specs documentation to internals manual?
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050709002328.GA3301@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m21x68khaq.fsf_-_@geoffk.org>

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:29:49PM -0700, Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> I agree with both comments here: it's lame that we have duplicated
> documentation (and explains why I didn't realise that I had to change
> two places), and I don't think that we should be considering specs to
> be an user-level interface to GCC.
> 
> So, what do people think about (a) deleting the big comment in gcc.c
> that tries to explain specs (leaving a pointer to the manual), and (b)
> moving the specs documentation to the internals manual?

I think it's a good idea - but someone should compare the two existing
bits of documentation first, since IIRC I've seen people add to one but
not the other.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-09  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <m3vf3lvld8.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.61.0507081217260.14395@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
2005-07-08 23:29     ` Geoffrey Keating
2005-07-09  0:23       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-07-09  0:32         ` Joseph S. Myers
2005-07-09  0:32       ` Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>

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