invoke.texi (-fexceptions): Merge 2 different descriptions.

Tue Sep 29 11:11:38 EDT 1998  Andrew MacLeod  <amacleod@cygnus.com>
        * invoke.texi (-fexceptions): Merge 2 different descriptions.

From-SVN: r22635

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 2c7fb1018a0449489fda8ae830f99c099c0426c4..291e376b5871e29c4dff50ca34534eeb8457e737 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Sep 29 11:11:38 EDT 1998  Andrew MacLeod  <amacleod@cygnus.com>
+
+       * invoke.texi (-fexceptions): Merge 2 different descriptions.
+
 Mon Sep 28 22:08:52 1998  Kaveh R. Ghazi  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
 
        * toplev.c (documented_lang_options): Spelling corrections.

diff --git a/gcc/invoke.texi b/gcc/invoke.texi
index 5c6d84594ea98457e7180afb1fd4d7054b4819c1..1bf0454512246f21ac8f154f1c747b42973f5a8d 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/invoke.texi
@@ -5664,9 +5664,12 @@ it.
 
 @table @code
 @item -fexceptions
-Enable exception handling, and generate extra code needed to propagate
-exceptions.  If you do not specify this option, GNU CC enables it by
-default for languages like C++ that normally require exception handling,
+Enable exception handling. Generates extra code needed to propagate
+exceptions.  For some targets, this implies generation of frame unwind 
+information for all functions. This can produce significant data size 
+overhead, although it does not affect execution.
+If you do not specify this option, it is enabled by
+default for languages like C++ which normally require exception handling,
 and disabled for languages like C that do not normally require it.
 However, when compiling C code that needs to interoperate properly with
 exception handlers written in C++, you may need to enable this option.
@@ -5921,14 +5924,6 @@ environment with multiple threads, but only rarely need to specify it in
 a single-threaded environment since stack overflow is automatically
 detected on nearly all systems if there is only one stack.
 
-@item -fexceptions
-Enable exception handling.  For some targets, this implies
-generation of frame unwind information for all functions, which can produce
-significant data size overhead, though it does not affect execution.
-
-This option is on by default for languages that support exception
-handling (such as C++), and off for those that don't (such as C).
-
 @cindex aliasing of parameters
 @cindex parameters, aliased
 @item -fargument-alias