Re: passes description

2008-09-08 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Diego Novillo wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 15:27, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, absolutely. The problem, as usual, is lack of time. Our standards for internal documentation are pretty bad and the set of people writing the documentation is always different than the set

Re: passes description

2008-09-08 Thread Diego Novillo
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 15:27, Basile STARYNKEVITCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that passes are central to the middle end in GCC, shouldn't we want > each of them (without exception!) be described by at least a simple > paragraph. I'm sure that is a small effort for each pass writer (he/she

passes description

2008-09-07 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Hello All, I have a wish: that each (middle-end) pass [those in gcc/tree-passes.h] would have a small documentation describing it (in particular which representations, TREE, SSA, CFG, etc... are valid after the pass). A simple wiki page (describing each pass) would be more than enough for me.