Hi Sandra,
> Whoops, I totally missed that you'd posted the previous version of this
> patch before I got around to pushing the revised docs patch I'd already had
> in my pile. :-(
no worries at all.
> If GCC is going to ignore this option, it would be consistent with what
> I've done elsewhere for options with the "Ignore" property to remove the
> documentation entirely. We have so many options and the manual is so long
> that I don't see much point in giving long-winded explanations of what
> options used to do, if they no longer do anything useful any more in the
> present version of GCC. If you think this is a compatibility issue that
> might trip up users, a release note seems like a better place to document
> the changed behavior; text in the manual is just going to get more and more
Good point: I was going to add a caveat to the GCC 16 changes.html
anyway.
> bit-rotten and irrelevant over time. (E.g., in my last batch of patches I
> removed some long-obsolete text about what used to happen for some x86
> option pre GCC 4.4.)
Fine: I'll just remove the section before committing. Glad I've asked :-)
Thanks.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
