Re: RFC: Creating a live, all-encompassing architectural document for GCC

2007-11-02 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Diego Novillo wrote: > So, I think the problem goes a bit beyond mere documentation of how a > module works at a high level. I would like to have a navigable > document that also describes the flow of things, interfaces and > helpers. Starting at main.c:main() and ending at t

Re: RFC: Creating a live, all-encompassing architectural document for GCC

2007-10-26 Thread Diego Novillo
On 10/26/07, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe a possible approach would be to use literate programming > techniques; By previous experience (still limited), I would believe that > it would be more worthwhile on the interface files (ie the *.h files, > some *.opt, etc...) tha

Re: RFC: Creating a live, all-encompassing architectural document for GCC

2007-10-26 Thread skaller
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 19:34 +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote: > Diego Novillo wrote: > I am more thinking loud than actually believing that it would be a good > idea to switch to literate programming; I have mixed feelings towards > this approach, which has been extensively used in the C-- com

Re: RFC: Creating a live, all-encompassing architectural document for GCC

2007-10-26 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Diego Novillo wrote: This idea is still very raw in my mind, so apologies in advance for being deliberately vague. For the last few weeks I have been thinking on ways to address the sorry state of our internal documentation. We all agree that none of us has global knowledge of all aspects of th

RFC: Creating a live, all-encompassing architectural document for GCC

2007-10-26 Thread Diego Novillo
This idea is still very raw in my mind, so apologies in advance for being deliberately vague. For the last few weeks I have been thinking on ways to address the sorry state of our internal documentation. We all agree that none of us has global knowledge of all aspects of the compiler. It's just