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authorSandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>2018-11-26 13:22:19 -0500
committerSandra Loosemore <sandra@gcc.gnu.org>2018-11-26 13:22:19 -0500
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re PR c/57182 (Documentation implies -fprofile-arcs required to create .text.unlikely sections)
2018-11-26 Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com> PR c/57182 gcc/ * doc/invoke.texi (Optimize Options): Document that -freorder-functions also uses "hot" and "cold" attributes. From-SVN: r266473
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2018-11-26 Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
+
+ PR c/57182
+ * doc/invoke.texi (Optimize Options): Document that
+ -freorder-functions also uses "hot" and "cold" attributes.
+
2018-11-26 Kyrylo Tkachov <kyrylo.tkachov@arm.com>
* config/aarch64/aarch64.c (aarch64_mangle_type): Fix typo in comment.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index e70db55..93938ab 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -9796,8 +9796,9 @@ subsections @code{.text.hot} for most frequently executed functions and
the linker so object file format must support named sections and linker must
place them in a reasonable way.
-Also profile feedback must be available to make this option effective. See
-@option{-fprofile-arcs} for details.
+This option isn't effective unless you either provide profile feedback
+(see @option{-fprofile-arcs} for details) or manually annotate functions with
+@code{hot} or @code{cold} attributes (@pxref{Common Function Attributes}).
Enabled at levels @option{-O2}, @option{-O3}, @option{-Os}.