From 98c503ac20be271e0970a1517aede57002bd2528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Clifton Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:56:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] PR 4824 * ld.texinfo (Options): Extend the description of the -O command line option. --- ld/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ ld/ld.texinfo | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog index f0a5ab9bfa5..c669d31f53e 100644 --- a/ld/ChangeLog +++ b/ld/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2007-07-25 Nick Clifton + + PR 4824 + * ld.texinfo (Options): Extend the description of the -O command + line option. + 2007-07-24 Kai Tietz * pep.sc: Correct ctor/dtor sentinels for 64-bit targets. diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index aca01629aa7..f27c08c8c60 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -758,7 +758,11 @@ script command @code{OUTPUT} can also specify the output file name. @item -O @var{level} If @var{level} is a numeric values greater than zero @command{ld} optimizes the output. This might take significantly longer and therefore probably -should only be enabled for the final binary. +should only be enabled for the final binary. At the moment this +option only affects ELF shared library generation. Future releases of +the linker may make more use of this option. Also currently there is +no difference in the linker's behaviour for different non-zero values +of this option. Again this may change with future releases. @kindex -q @kindex --emit-relocs -- 2.30.2