On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:52 AM, NightStrike <nightstr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps it'd be worthwhile to consider making the compiler easier to > understand, maybe by devoting a lot of effort into the internals > documentation. There's a lot of knowledge wrapped up in people that > could disappear with one bus factor. Agreed. This is one of the motivators for the code evolution projects. New developers need to find a codebase that is easier to hack than the one we found (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ImprovementProjects). Documentation is a big part of that. As it was argued earlier, finding such volunteers is very hard. The job is not easy and it is generally thankless. Diego.
