On Mar 8, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Sandra Loosemore <san...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > In general, the GCC manual documents the version of the compiler that it goes > with. New features are being added all the time, and it's not terribly > useful to users to document that such-and-such a feature isn't supported in > ancient GCC versions, or to suggest workarounds for old GCC versions that > lack the feature, or to write the documentation for a new feature in terms of > what has changed from some previous behavior of GCC instead of what the > current behavior is, or to describe a change using words like "recently" or > "newer" or "previous version" that are guaranteed to become bit-rotten over > time.
I read through the change, and I like the change. :-) > This patch deletes a bunch of such material from the manual; it's probably > not exhaustive, but it's a step in the right direction, at least. One such > "recently" reference I found referred to a change that was made in 2002, > another place described behavior that was removed in version 2.6, etc. > > I'll commit this in a few days unless I hear complaints My recommendation would be, if people want information like this, they can populate the wiki with this type of information.
