* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:51:01AM CET: > > Really the original text is slightly wrong. [...] > This option only applies to strings in debugging information. It should > say something like "Direct the linker to not merge together strings in > the debugging information which are identical in different object > files." Also I think s/It decreases/Merging decreases/. > > OK with those changes.
Thanks, this is how I applied it (also s/assemblers or linker/&s/) after retesting. Cheers, Ralf 2009-03-25 Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> * doc/invoke.texi (Debugging Options): Fix description of -fno-merge-debug-strings. Index: gcc/doc/invoke.texi =================================================================== --- gcc/doc/invoke.texi (revision 145050) +++ gcc/doc/invoke.texi (working copy) @@ -4408,11 +4408,11 @@ @item -fno-merge-debug-strings @opindex fmerge-debug-strings @opindex fno-merge-debug-strings -Direct the linker to merge together strings which are identical in -different object files. This is not supported by all assemblers or -linker. This decreases the size of the debug information in the -output file at the cost of increasing link processing time. This is -on by default. +Direct the linker to not merge together strings in the debugging +information which are identical in different object files. Merging is +not supported by all assemblers or linkers. Merging decreases the size +of the debug information in the output file at the cost of increasing +link processing time. Merging is enabled by default. @item -fdebug-prefix-m...@var{old}=@var{new} @opindex fdebug-prefix-map