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authorRichard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>2020-05-19 08:36:13 +0200
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lto/95190 - amend -flto docs for diagnostic option handling
This documents new GCC 10 behavior on diagnostic options and -flto. 2020-05-22 Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de> PR lto/95190 * doc/invoke.texi (flto): Document behavior of diagnostic options.
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@@ -11205,6 +11205,14 @@ conflicting translation units. Specifically
precedence; and for example @option{-ffp-contract=off} takes precedence
over @option{-ffp-contract=fast}. You can override them at link time.
+Diagnostic options such as @option{-Wstringop-overflow} are passed
+through to the link stage and their setting matches that of the
+compile-step at function granularity. Note that this matters only
+for diagnostics emitted during optimization. Note that code
+transforms such as inlining can lead to warnings being enabled
+or disabled for regions if code not consistent with the setting
+at compile time.
+
When you need to pass options to the assembler via @option{-Wa} or
@option{-Xassembler} make sure to either compile such translation
units with @option{-fno-lto} or consistently use the same assembler