New "Diving into GCC internals" section in newbies guide

New "Diving into GCC internals" section in newbies guide

[David Malcolm]

I've written a large new chunk of documentation for my GCC newbies
guide, called "Diving into GCC internals", which can be seen at:

https://gcc-newbies-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/diving-into-gcc-internals.html

Hope this is helpful; please let me know if you see any mistakes, or if
there's room for improvement

Dave

Re: New "Diving into GCC internals" section in newbies guide

[Eric Botcazou]

> Hope this is helpful; please let me know if you see any mistakes, or if
> there's room for improvement

Nice work!  In the "inside cc1" chapter, I think that IR is usually meant for 
"Intermediate Representation" rather than "Internal Representation" in this 
context.

-- 
Eric Botcazou

Re: New "Diving into GCC internals" section in newbies guide

[Sam James]

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> On 10 Jun 2022, at 22:58, David Malcolm via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> I've written a large new chunk of documentation for my GCC newbies
> guide, called "Diving into GCC internals", which can be seen at:
> 
> https://gcc-newbies-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/diving-into-gcc-internals.html
> 
> Hope this is helpful; please let me know if you see any mistakes, or if
> there's room for improvement
> 

I didn't even realise the guide existed at all!

This looks really interesting, thanks!

> Dave
> 


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Re: New "Diving into GCC internals" section in newbies guide

[David Malcolm]

On Sat, 2022-06-11 at 02:35 +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > Hope this is helpful; please let me know if you see any mistakes,
> > or if
> > there's room for improvement
> 
> Nice work!  In the "inside cc1" chapter, I think that IR is usually
> meant for 
> "Intermediate Representation" rather than "Internal Representation"
> in this 
> context.

Thanks - you're right.  I've updated the doc accordingly.

Dave
> 

Re: New "Diving into GCC internals" section in newbies guide

[Eric Gallager]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:38 PM David Malcolm via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2022-06-11 at 02:35 +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > > Hope this is helpful; please let me know if you see any mistakes,
> > > or if
> > > there's room for improvement
> >
> > Nice work!  In the "inside cc1" chapter, I think that IR is usually
> > meant for
> > "Intermediate Representation" rather than "Internal Representation"
> > in this
> > context.
>
> Thanks - you're right.  I've updated the doc accordingly.
>
> Dave

For the unwritten "What’s in the GCC source tree?" page I'd just like
to note that there's a similar page in the existing GCC internals docs
in sourcebuild.texi; I updated it recently in r13-817-gda5f0cc2f51a79:
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=da5f0cc2f51a791a397fd1b3cef662763897a826