From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hamza.pair.com (hamza.pair.com [209.68.5.143]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE6353858D37 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:32:01 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org BE6353858D37 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=pfeifer.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pfeifer.com Received: from hamza.pair.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hamza.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD3C33E13; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:31:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from naga.localdomain (193-83-131-169.adsl.highway.telekom.at [193.83.131.169]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by hamza.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 243EA33E20; Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:31:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:31:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Jonathan Wakely cc: Van Ly , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: unreachable intro to gcc page linked to on readings page In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <5c5f8d82-9dd8-1334-2067-d944b77fefc@SDF.ORG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: mailmunge 3.09 on 209.68.5.143 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FSL_BULK_SIG,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On Wed, 24 Aug 2022, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> a broken link points to >> >> An introduction to GCC by Brian J. Gough. >> . http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/ > There are much more recent archived copies like > https://web.archive.org/web/20181113021321/http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/ > I'm not sure it's worth updating the link to an archived copy of that > page, because all the links for buying a PDF or printed copy are > probably dead now anyway. > > We could link to https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-835 instead, or > to the archived HTML version. The newest capture of the HTML version > seems to be this, although I didn't check that all pages are archived: > https://web.archive.org/web/20181206025406/http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/ > My preference would be to link to that latter. Although it's quite > dated, the sections on basic compilation and compiler flags are still > relevant for beginners. > > Gerald? I searched around a bit myself (since indeed the original and printed versions seem to be gone) and landed at https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-835 as well. I probably would have gone for that, though the web.archive.org/web link you found works equally if you want to point there instead. Gerald (who appears in the Acknowledgement section of that book :-)