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Re: [avr-chat] Re:C++ maintainer
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Joerg Wunsch |
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Re: [avr-chat] Re:C++ maintainer |
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Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:32:16 +0200 (MET DST) |
"Steve Franks" <address@hidden> wrote:
> So, I'm crazy enough to try, but wouldn't even know where to get
> started (beyone downloading the gcc source and attempting to build).
That's obviously the first step. Well, the first step is certainly to
get a bit insight into the SVN (subversion, GNU's version management)
system GCC uses for its repository. It's command-line lookalike to
CVS, but a few things are handled differently.
> Is there a "roadmap for g++ maintainers" located anywhere?
I don't think one exists.
> A doxy file, a map of the basic structure of the source, anything
> like that?
There is indeed some text file explaining the rought structure of the
GCC tree, and there's a GCC internals texinfo documentation. Or was
the tree description inside the texinfo? I can't remember exactly.
Anyway, all the C++ frontend stuff is in a directory named "cp" inside
the GCC tree. The directory is about 6 MB in size (without the SVN
admin stuff, which adds another 6 MB), where almost 3 MB out of it
belong to the various ChangeLog* files. The total line count of the
implementation files is about 100K.
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