Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Michael Cieslinski wrote:
I also could convert parts of the ggcinternals manual into wiki pages.
But only if there is a consensus about this being the way to go.
I'm sure it's the wrong way to go. I find a properly formatted and
indexed book far more convenient for learning about substantial areas of
compiler internals, or for finding what some particular macro is specified
to do, than a wiki. And since some people seem to think the internal
manual is of no use: it's the first place I refer to for information on
the areas of internals it covers; after that source code and mailing list
archives, the wiki very rarely.
I think the wiki is certainly useful for rough notes such as
<http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/general%20backend%20cleanup>, synthesised from
mailing list discussions.
It may be useful as an intermediate step in putting together
reverse-engineered information about internals in order to specify it
properly in the internals manual - but only provided authorship and
copyright assignment information is rigorously tracked as required by the
FSF.
Just put in a clause that copyright of all additions automatically
reverts to FSF.
