To
use the online documentation, see Reading
Online Documentation . For understanding
the conventions in the text, see How
to read the documentation.
For
online use, the accompanying software distribution also includes online
versions of all the printed manuals, and also the following documents:
- FLEX: A Fast Lexical
Analyzer Generator
- Generates lexical analyzers
suitable for gnu gcc and other compilers.
- Using and Porting GNU
CC
- Detailed information about
what's needed to put gcc
on different platforms, or to modify gcc.
Also includes all the information from the printed manual, Using
GNU CC.
- BYacc
- A discussion of the Berkeley
Yacc parser generator.
- User's Guide to the GNU
C++ Library
- Details about the general-purpose
GNU C++ library, covered under the GNU Library General Public License.
- Texinfo: The GNU Documentation
Format
- How you can use TEX to print
these manuals, and how to write your own manuals in this style.
- Cygnus configure
- Details on the configuration
program used in Cygnus releases.
- GNU Coding Standards
- A complete discussion of
the coding standards used by the GNU project.
- GNU gprof
- Details on the GNU performance
analyzer, only for the Sun-3 and Sun-4 (SunOS 4.1 or Solaris 2) platforms.
Finally,
man
pages are included for all the programs in the release. See What's
in the CDK?.
You
have the freedom to copy the manuals like the software they cover; each
manual's copyright statement includes the necessary permissions. The manuals
themselves are also free software, and the source code for them is also
available on the tape.