Re: extended asm docs - re-written

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On 24 April 2013 10:41, dw wrote:
> I found the existing docs for extended asm to be unclear and incomplete.
> Rather than just complain and hope someone would fix them, I have re-written
> them myself.

Excellent!  That approach is far more likely to succeeed :-)

> In general, I wrote a framework to describe the instruction, then cut/pasted
> the existing text into the appropriate places in the new doc.  This has
> resulted in a complete re-write of section 6.41
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.0/gcc/Extended-Asm.html) as well as a
> few new sub-sections.
>
> I have generated a patch file for extend.texi
> (http://www.LimeGreenSocks.com/gcc/extend.texi.patch), or you can
> (temporarily) view the html at
> http://www.limegreensocks.com/gcc/Extended-Asm.html.
>
> No doubt I have violated a dozen of the gcc doc standards, but I believe
> that overall, the content and format of the changes are a huge improvement
> over the existing text.
>
> Please let me know what I need to do to have this patch accepted.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html for the legal prerequisites and
how to submit patches for review.




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