> -----Original Message----- > From: herron.philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:herron.philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Herron > Sent: 13 May 2014 11:57 > To: Paulo Matos > Cc: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx; Andi Hellmund > Subject: Re: Frontend documentation > > Andi and i wrote a fairly comprehensive front-end guide a few years > ago but it was never merged in probably hard to review since its > subjective but yeah gcc really needs this. I think the main problem is > the boiler plate needed. > > So when writing a tutorial or documentation there is a lot of boiler > plate to go over and project structure to setup and then from there > learning GENERIC takes time. This is what we had but i really want to > do it all again so much. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-09/msg00312/front-end-doc.patch Thanks, it looks like a good start. Any reason for having never been merged in? Paulo Matos
