From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13687 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2001 17:33:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 13666 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2001 17:33:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.cgsoftware.com) (208.155.65.221) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 2001 17:33:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (pool-151-203-13-15.bos.east.verizon.net [151.203.13.15]) by www.cgsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25105; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:33:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:42:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Start of guide to writing optimizations for gcc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v478) Cc: To: Hans-Peter Nilsson From: Daniel Berlin In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.478) X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00871.txt.bz2 On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 12:09 AM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote: > >> I put the start of a guide to writing optimizations for gcc at >> >> http://www.dberlin.org/gccopt > > How about doing this as part of the GCC project, i.e. as part of > gcc documentation? If you think "well, maybe later", then later > you'd have problems getting assignments and whatnot. ... which > might be part of the reason you're not doing this as part of > GCC. Yup. I'm more concerned with getting a good guide than getting copyright assignments. > (That and docbook vs. texinfo.) > The copyright issue is of > course still there, but nobody will notice until it blows up > (perhaps when you want to publish it in paper format). These problems generally rear their ugly head because somebody signs a contract without getting it looked at by a lawyer first, making assumptions as to the meaning of various terms, etc. I've actually had books published before, and even then (I was 16 at the time) I had the contracts they wanted me to sign looked over and changed slightly by a lawyer. > Then > again, IANAL and I'm not even the one of us studying law. :-) > :)