Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 20:16:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Gordon Hogenson <ghogenso AT u DOT washington DOT edu>
To: U-E59264-Osman Buyukisik <buyuk AT c0312 DOT ae DOT ge DOT com>
Cc: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu,
        djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii?

On Thu, 17 Nov 1994, U-E59264-Osman Buyukisik wrote:

> This thread has been beaten to death some time ago. The docs are
> written by (mostly) FSF, and they have chosen TeX/texinfo
> system. People have posted postscript files (I dont remember where). 

I noticed that the distribution of GCC 2.6.2 contains "gcc.ps",
a postscript version of the info files.  [This is a nice gesture,
even though it increasing the archive from ~6 megs to 7+.]  Perhaps 
this file will be included in the next DJGPP release?

Speaking of GCC 2.6.2, I noticed that several new "-m" options have
been added specifically for the 386, including

-mreg-alloc="string"
-mno-wide-multiply

Could the former be a response to Kimberley's observations on the
code produced by gcc?  I would be interested to hear if anyone
can explain the significance of these new options.

Gordon