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authorMartin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>2019-02-27 11:07:01 +0100
committerMartin Jambor <jamborm@gcc.gnu.org>2019-02-27 11:07:01 +0100
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[doc] Reword description of -Wno-absolute-value
2019-02-27 Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz> Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com> * doc/invoke.texi (Warning Options): Reword description of -Wno-absolute-value. Co-Authored-By: Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com> From-SVN: r269246
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
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--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2019-02-27 Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>
+ Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>
+
+ * doc/invoke.texi (Warning Options): Reword description of
+ -Wno-absolute-value.
+
2019-02-27 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
PR tree-optimization/89280
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index dedf3c4..a8efa1a 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -6656,9 +6656,13 @@ example, warn if an unsigned variable is compared against zero with
@item -Wabsolute-value @r{(C and Objective-C only)}
@opindex Wabsolute-value
@opindex Wno-absolute-value
-Warn when a wrong absolute value function seems to be used or when it
-does not have any effect because its argument is an unsigned type.
-This warning be suppressed with an explicit type cast and it is also
+Warn for calls to standard functions that compute the absolute value
+of an argument when a more appropriate standard function is available.
+For example, calling @code{abs(3.14)} triggers the warning because the
+appropriate function to call to compute the absolute value of a double
+argument is @code{fabs}. The option also triggers warnings when the
+argument in a call to such a function has an unsigned type. This
+warning can be suppressed with an explicit type cast and it is also
enabled by @option{-Wextra}.
@include cppwarnopts.texi