Hi! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> On Tue 27 Sep 2011 22:43, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Would it be possible to move the explanations from the commit log to >> comments in the code? >> >> Looking at the above code, I have no idea what a var-table or a counter >> is, what it’s used for, etc. > > Sure. I forget sometimes, because I've read that Waddell & Dybvig paper > so many times that I forget it's not written down in the source ;) I wonder what the GCC hacker community would be like if its source code wasn’t commented. :-) Seriously though, I think that pointing to the paper would be nice, but the paper is higher-level than the actual implementation, so comments could fill in the gap. Thanks, Ludo’.
