On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> Adjective phrases immediately before the noun they modify are 
> hyphenated. This is the same reason why we write "floating-point 
> arithmetic" but "floating point", unhyphenated, as a noun.

Thanks for the explanation / background, Sandra.

Below is the patch I just committed based on your other feedback.

Gerald

2016-09-20  Gerald Pfeifer  <ger...@pfeifer.com>

        * doc/invoke.texi (Warning Options): Simplify language.
        (Optimize Options): Complete sentence.

Index: doc/invoke.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/invoke.texi     (revision 240270)
+++ doc/invoke.texi     (working copy)
@@ -3752,8 +3752,8 @@
 @code{register}.
 
 @item
-(C++ only) A base class is not initialized in a derived class's copy
-constructor.
+(C++ only) A base class is not initialized in the copy constructor
+of a derived class.
 
 @end itemize
 
@@ -9128,9 +9128,9 @@
 optimizers.
 
 When profile feedback is available (see @option{-fprofile-generate}) the actual
-recursion depth can be guessed from probability that function recurses via a
-given call expression.  This parameter limits inlining only to call expressions
-whose probability exceeds the given threshold (in percents).
+recursion depth can be guessed from the probability that function recurses
+via a given call expression.  This parameter limits inlining only to call
+expressions whose probability exceeds the given threshold (in percents).
 The default value is 10.
 
 @item early-inlining-insns

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