On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 11:31, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2022, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > >> a broken link points to > >> > >> An introduction to GCC by Brian J. Gough. > >> . http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/ > > There are much more recent archived copies like > > https://web.archive.org/web/20181113021321/http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/ > > I'm not sure it's worth updating the link to an archived copy of that > > page, because all the links for buying a PDF or printed copy are > > probably dead now anyway. > > > > We could link to https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-835 instead, or > > to the archived HTML version. The newest capture of the HTML version > > seems to be this, although I didn't check that all pages are archived: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20181206025406/http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/ > > My preference would be to link to that latter. Although it's quite > > dated, the sections on basic compilation and compiler flags are still > > relevant for beginners. > > > > Gerald? > > I searched around a bit myself (since indeed the original and printed > versions seem to be gone) and landed at > > https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-835 > > as well. I probably would have gone for that, though the > web.archive.org/web link you found works equally if you want to point > there instead.
Why not both? I've pushed the attached patch to [wwwdocs].
commit 0e4c9a39789b6dbcd44b2e0d4a42b5885d3bddb2 Author: Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com> Date: Thu Sep 1 10:57:46 2022 +0100 Replace stale link to the "An Introduction to GCC" book diff --git a/htdocs/readings.html b/htdocs/readings.html index 4269e9f0..5d1b78e8 100644 --- a/htdocs/readings.html +++ b/htdocs/readings.html @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ <ul> - <li><a href="http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/">An Introduction - to GCC</a> by Brian J. Gough.</li> + <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060106062936/http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/">An Introduction + to GCC</a> by Brian J. Gough + (<a href="https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-835/">e-book</a>).</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_C_Compiler_Internals">GNU C Compiler Internals (Wikibook)</a>, numerous contributors.</li>