Re: How to write elegant C coding (certainly OT)

[Adrian von Bidder]

On Wednesday 05 January 2005 09.14, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:49:07PM +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> > I'd say better to study compile theory and a kind of compiler source
> > code.
>
> Yes, gcc source definitely makes a great cautionary tale about the need
> of writing elegant code and dreadful results of not doing so.


LOL

I specifically recommend the ARM backend.  It was copied from some other 
RISC target, then a ARM thumb (16bit instruction width) backend was split 
from that, and finally the thumb and 32bit backends were merged again, 
apparently without removing much of the duplicated code.

Fun.

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