On 22/01/13 16:57, Diego Novillo wrote:
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.
I've been disgruntled lately as I was reading GCC is supposed to be a
bitch to read!
This makes it harder to be used in non-free projects, they want to avoid
"piping off"
GCCs forms of data or "shimmying" it off to another program, I joined
this mailing list in fact
because I could find no information on the matter and if this is true
this is quite depressing.
The thought it is that political is the depressing part, but I can see
the point. Urgh it's a nasty issue and
has been talked to death - I am told - where can I read what's been said
already!
BTW I am an eager potential contributor but really GCC is BIG!
As it was argued earlier, finding such volunteers is very hard. The
job is not easy and it is generally thankless.
Diego.
