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"Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware)" <Ken.Wolcott@med.ge.com> wrote: > It looks like I need to understand the internals of gcc. Where is a good > resource (URL) where I can obtain information about the internals of gcc > rather than the usage of gcc? Building the GCC documents is just as important as building the GCC binaries. So you have the GCC sources and you can build the docs as PDF-manuals for browsing and printing, as HTML-pages, or in any other format the GNU texinfo sources allows... Even Windoze '.hlp' format is fully possible. The "GCC Internals" manual name would hint these things being there, but the 'specs' file is handled in "Using" and the install issues like those config things in "Install"... With gcc-2.9 things were easy, the "Using and Porting" handled them all... I would expect the Dan's scripts to do all the essential documents building and producing nice PDF-manuals for the Acrobat Reader :-) Or, maybe MS has an influence into this : when DOS 3.3 still had the big DOS and Basic books, Win2k Professional has only a very thin (100 pages) "Getting Started". At least RedHat has been influenced -- none of those "Install CDs" ever has had the RedHat Linux PDF-docs downloadable via their www-site, but they always have all kind of totally unnecessary stuff like those SRPMS... And of course no GNU docs in any sane format... Maybe in the 'info' format but who has used 'info' since the early 90's ? It seems to be a common understanding that "real programmers never read any manuals", but "knowing much and not so sure, is always better than knowing little but very sure" is my opinion... So consulting the manuals is not a shame for me. If we look at the crossgcc archives, we will find very few reported problems in converting the 'gcc/doc' texinfo sources into browsable/printable manuals, so this task must be very easy... Maybe I'm the only one ever having any problems here, but this far I have succeeded to fix the problems myself. For instance the 'pdftex' and 'pdflatex' tools in my RH 7.x don't fully understand all the new texinfo features used in the document sources... Ok, those PDF manuals are my favourite with all their bookmarks, cross-references and indeces... Cheers, Kai ------ Want more information? See the CrossGCC FAQ, http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ Want to unsubscribe? Send a note to crossgcc-unsubscribe@sources.redhat.com
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