Nathan Froyd <froy...@codesourcery.com> writes: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:30:44AM -0400, Diego Novillo wrote: > >> To attract new developers, GCC needs to modernize its internal >> structure. I have some thoughts on that, but progress has been slow, >> due mostly to resource constraints. > > Would you mind expanding--even just a little bit--on what bits need > modernizing?
The tree/GIMPLE layer needs significantly better documentation, but is otherwise not too bad. Once you get to the RTL layer, there are too many undocumented inter-pass dependencies. The interface between the frontend and the middle-end is largely undocumented. Ian
