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| author | Diego Novillo <dnovillo@gcc.gnu.org> | 2010-04-16 08:37:55 -0400 |
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| committer | Diego Novillo <dnovillo@gcc.gnu.org> | 2010-04-16 08:37:55 -0400 |
| commit | e54655a20e4f53e6a723deb09d5a5a36c315f2b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 79d1cfccf8ff726bc9ea0039b745a830c0e448b7 /gcc/doc | |
| parent | 68a3eb69b12f7385ed0696ecf696a4ee47f61619 (diff) | |
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Clarify what happens with an unrecognized -Wno- option
From-SVN: r158413
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi index 8dcba6e..39920a8 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi @@ -2807,6 +2807,15 @@ two forms, whichever is not the default. For further, language-specific options also refer to @ref{C++ Dialect Options} and @ref{Objective-C and Objective-C++ Dialect Options}. +When an unrecognized warning label is requested, for example +@option{-Wunknwon-warning}, GCC will emit a diagnostic stating +that the option is not recognized. However, if the @samp{-Wno-} form +is used, the behavior is slightly different: No diagnostic will be +produced for @option{-Wno-unknown-warning} unless other diagnostics +are being produced. This allows the use of new @option{-Wno-} options +with old compilers, but if something goes wrong, the compiler will +warn that an unrecognized option was used. + @table @gcctabopt @item -pedantic @opindex pedantic |