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. Gerald (who appears in the Acknowledgement section of that book :-)
