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author | Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> | 2011-05-07 23:17:44 +0000 |
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committer | Jonathan Wakely <redi@gcc.gnu.org> | 2011-05-08 00:17:44 +0100 |
commit | 7c74e5567b45473463bc5d11e5caae17148e4ca8 (patch) | |
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invoke.texi (-fuse-linker-plugin): Improve grammar.
2011-05-08 Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
* doc/invoke.texi (-fuse-linker-plugin): Improve grammar.
From-SVN: r173538
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi index 848aa37..ddc34de 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi @@ -7701,17 +7701,18 @@ files in LTO mode (via @option{-flto}). Disabled by default. @item -fuse-linker-plugin -Enables the use of linker plugin during link time optimization. This option -relies on the linker plugin support in linker that is available in gold +Enables the use of a linker plugin during link time optimization. This +option relies on plugin support in the linker, which is available in gold or in GNU ld 2.21 or newer. -This option enables the extraction of object files with GIMPLE bytecode out of -library archives. This improves the quality of optimization by exposing more -code the link time optimizer. This information specify what symbols -can be accessed externally (by non-LTO object or during dynamic linking). -Resulting code quality improvements on binaries (and shared libraries that do -use hidden visibility) is similar to @code{-fwhole-program}. See -@option{-flto} for a description on the effect of this flag and how to use it. +This option enables the extraction of object files with GIMPLE bytecode out +of library archives. This improves the quality of optimization by exposing +more code to the link time optimizer. This information specifies what +symbols can be accessed externally (by non-LTO object or during dynamic +linking). Resulting code quality improvements on binaries (and shared +libraries that use hidden visibility) are similar to @code{-fwhole-program}. +See @option{-flto} for a description of the effect of this flag and how to +use it. Enabled by default when LTO support in GCC is enabled and GCC was compiled with a linker supporting plugins (GNU ld 2.21 or newer or gold). |