From: Sandra Loosemore Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:57:28 +0000 (-0500) Subject: invoke.texi: Use correct names for "DWARF", "stabs", and "ELF". X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7bd11aba5fe5b9fdbc23119b3f326234eea8a00b;p=gcc.git invoke.texi: Use correct names for "DWARF", "stabs", and "ELF". 2012-03-09 Sandra Loosemore gcc/ * doc/invoke.texi: Use correct names for "DWARF", "stabs", and "ELF". From-SVN: r185167 --- diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 5020eddc111..db969231af5 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2012-03-09 Sandra Loosemore + + * doc/invoke.texi: Use correct names for "DWARF", "stabs", and "ELF". + 2012-03-09 Uros Bizjak PR target/52530 diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi index 42285a7e565..2eba0003910 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi @@ -4756,7 +4756,7 @@ factor of two. @item -fno-debug-types-section @opindex fno-debug-types-section @opindex fdebug-types-section -By default when using DWARF v4 or higher type DIEs will be put into +By default when using DWARF Version 4 or higher type DIEs will be put into their own .debug_types section instead of making them part of the .debug_info section. It is more efficient to put them in a separate comdat sections since the linker will then be able to remove duplicates. @@ -4794,7 +4794,7 @@ Produce debugging information in DWARF format (if that is supported). This is the format used by DBX on IRIX 6. The value of @var{version} may be either 2, 3 or 4; the default version is 2. -Note that with DWARF version 2 some ports require, and will always +Note that with DWARF Version 2 some ports require, and will always use, some non-conflicting DWARF 3 extensions in the unwind tables. Version 4 may require GDB 7.0 and @option{-fvar-tracking-assignments} @@ -4919,9 +4919,9 @@ other than debugging the compiler proper. @item -feliminate-dwarf2-dups @opindex feliminate-dwarf2-dups -Compress DWARF2 debugging information by eliminating duplicated +Compress DWARF 2 debugging information by eliminating duplicated information about each symbol. This option only makes sense when -generating DWARF2 debugging information with @option{-gdwarf-2}. +generating DWARF 2 debugging information with @option{-gdwarf-2}. @item -femit-struct-debug-baseonly Emit debug information for struct-like types @@ -6096,7 +6096,7 @@ is used when GCC itself is being built.) @xref{Spec Files}. @item -feliminate-unused-debug-types @opindex feliminate-unused-debug-types -Normally, when producing DWARF2 output, GCC will emit debugging +Normally, when producing DWARF 2 output, GCC will emit debugging information for all types declared in a compilation unit, regardless of whether or not they are actually used in that compilation unit. Sometimes this is useful, such as @@ -11764,7 +11764,7 @@ is default. @item -msim @opindex msim Links the library libsim.a which is in compatible with simulator. Applicable -to elf compiler only. +to ELF compiler only. @item -mint32 @opindex mint32 @@ -11851,7 +11851,7 @@ warn about constructs contained within header files found via @item -gused @opindex gused -Emit debugging information for symbols that are used. For STABS +Emit debugging information for symbols that are used. For stabs debugging format, this enables @option{-feliminate-unused-debug-symbols}. This is by default ON@. @@ -17651,7 +17651,7 @@ type. This is the default. Store (do not store) the address of the caller's frame as backchain pointer into the callee's stack frame. A backchain may be needed to allow debugging using tools that do not understand -DWARF-2 call frame information. +DWARF 2 call frame information. When @option{-mno-packed-stack} is in effect, the backchain pointer is stored at the bottom of the stack frame; when @option{-mpacked-stack} is in effect, the backchain is placed into the topmost word of the 96/160 byte register @@ -19156,7 +19156,7 @@ that needs this handling would enable it on your behalf. @item -fasynchronous-unwind-tables @opindex fasynchronous-unwind-tables -Generate unwind table in dwarf2 format, if supported by target machine. The +Generate unwind table in DWARF 2 format, if supported by target machine. The table is exact at each instruction boundary, so it can be used for stack unwinding from asynchronous events (such as debugger or garbage collector).