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