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authorGerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>2010-07-24 20:00:49 +0000
committerGerald Pfeifer <gerald@gcc.gnu.org>2010-07-24 20:00:49 +0000
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install.texi (Specific, [...]): Adjust to recent changes.
* doc/install.texi (Specific, *-*-freebsd*): Adjust to recent changes. Streamline paragraph on compatibility with the system compiler. From-SVN: r162503
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-07-24 Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
+
+ * doc/install.texi (Specific, *-*-freebsd*): Adjust to recent
+ changes. Streamline paragraph on compatibility with the system
+ compiler.
+
2010-07-24 Steven Bosscher <steven@gcc.gnu.org>
PR middle-end/45035
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index 648f097..fc9b988 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -3219,12 +3219,13 @@ Support for FreeBSD 1 was discontinued in GCC 3.2. Support for
FreeBSD 2 (and any mutant a.out variants of FreeBSD 3) was
discontinued in GCC 4.0.
-In GCC 4.5, we enabled the use of @code{dl_iterate_phdr} inside boehm-gc on
-FreeBSD 7 or later. In order to better match the configuration of the
-FreeBSD system compiler: We also enabled the check to see if libc
-provides SSP support (which it does on FreeBSD 7), the use of
-@code{dl_iterate_phdr} inside @file{libgcc_s.so.1} (on FreeBSD 7 or later)
-and the use of @code{__cxa_atexit} by default (on FreeBSD 6 or later).
+In order to better utilize FreeBSD base system functionality and match
+the configuration of the system compiler, GCC 4.5 and above as well as
+GCC 4.4 past 2010-06-20 leverage SSP support in libc (which is present
+on FreeBSD 7 or later) and the use of @code{__cxa_atexit} by default
+(on FreeBSD 6 or later). The use of @code{dl_iterate_phdr} inside
+@file{libgcc_s.so.1} and boehm-gc (on FreeBSD 7 or later) is enabled
+by GCC 4.5 and above.
We support FreeBSD using the ELF file format with DWARF 2 debugging
for all CPU architectures. You may use @option{-gstabs} instead of