[LLVMdev] llvm books

[Bruno Cardoso Lopes]

Hi Renato,

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 27 July 2015 at 19:28, Bruno Cardoso Lopes <bruno.cardoso at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Let us know if you have examples of that, and we'll pass that up to
>> the editor to fix in further editions.
>
> The cross-compilation chapter has entire identical phrases and the
> general structure is very similar.
>
> Of course, I'd expect any half-decent book to have the official
> documentation as one of the primary sources, but not in a
> paste-then-modify kind.
>
> I was looking for that chapter in particular, given that I wrote the
> original docs on cross-compilations, and I know I didn't do a good job
> at it. I was expecting a more thorough description of the issues,
> system particularities, toolchains you can choose and how, but it
> ended up being as lacking as my original docs, which is a shame,
> really.

I agree that it could have covered more topics and etc, but it was out
of our intended scope.
I double checked in the cross-compilation chapter and I don't find the
general structure similar nor did find identical phrases :-)
We do in fact use the same generic triple used in the docs
"<arch><sub>-<vendor>-<sys>-<abi>", but this one was intentional, as
to make it easier for the reader to relate the content on the book
with stuff in the official docs.

Thanks for the feedback,

-- 
Bruno Cardoso Lopes
http://www.brunocardoso.cc