ADLER1%BRANDEIS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU (08/01/87)
I have followed with interest the long debate over readable code on this network. However, most of this debate has focussed on the problem of writing readable code. I am interested in reading readable code and I could use some advice on how to do so. I have source code to a few large programs which I would like to understand as well as I can. I don't expect anyone to be able to give general advice on this since there are so many different kinds of programs. So let me focus on one program which is familiar to many of you and whose source code is readily available for free: the GNU C compiler. Leaving aside all question of the necessity, wisdom or even the sanity of doing so, how should one approach the problem of studying the source code to the GNU C compiler? ADLER1@BRANDEIS.BITNET