On Thu, 26 Mar 2026, Sandra Loosemore wrote:

> On 3/26/26 01:46, Richard Biener wrote:
> > The following adds a skeleton for documenting internal function details.
> > Without such a place it's quite difficult to tell people to document
> > things when they add new internal functions.  We might want to split
> > the table into two, separating direct internal functions from others.
> > 
> > I've placed the contents after the GENERIC/GIMPLE chapters.
> > 
> > Any comments?  I hope to expand it a bit before formally asking for OK.
> 
> Sounds good to me.  Something I'd like to see covered is the difference
> between an internal function and a builtin, and why you'd want to use one or
> the other.

Good point, I'll try to frame that into the next update.

> I also noticed that the internals manual doesn't seem to document how to add a
> new builtin, but I guess that is a separate issue.

Yes, I think for no topic we document how to do X.  The internals manual
is more like a reference manual.

Richard.

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