Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:45:02 -0400
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>
> let me play the Devil's
> advocate and ask what significant wins we gain from generating the
> source files from the Texinfo file, that justify maintaining the
> scripts which are required to support this machinery?
We first establish a one-stop shop for adding observers, and second
eliminate the drudgery of churning out the C code needed to implement
each observer.
That much is understood, but I still have a difficulty to see how
inventing an elaborate machinery for churning C code out of Texinfo
(which is hardly a trivial Sed'ery) is justified by the benefits you
mentioned. I thought perhaps there were other, subtler, benefits
which I didn't see. Are there?