Re: (RFC) GCC minor document change: gcc.1

[Ishikawa <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp>]

Jim Wilson wrote:
> 
> Ishikawa wrote:
> > The file that should be patched is invoke.texi.
> 
> I don't think this helps much.  Someone reading the documentation for
> the -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss option to learn what it does isn't
> helped by the fact that it affects GNU Emacs.  Someone reading the
> documentation to figure out why GNU Emacs doesn't work isn't going to
> know that they are supposed to look at the documentation for this option.

I agree that this is not among the first files, someone
with the problem is going to read.
 
> I suggest putting the info someplace else, such as in the 3.3 release notes.
>         http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html
> Or maybe on the known bugs page.
>         http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html#known

I think the former may be good enough.

Now I am wondering if the message is reaching people who has 
the authority to modify the changes.html.


-- 
int main(void){int j=2003;/*(c)2003 cishikawa. */
char t[] ="<CI> @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.,\n\"";
char *i ="g>qtCIuqivb,gCwe\np@.ietCIuqi\"tqkvv is>dnamz";
while(*i)((j+=strchr(t,*i++)-(int)t),(j%=sizeof t-1),
(putchar(t[j])));return 0;}/* under GPL */