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Minor improvement to gcc -Wall doc


>From an idea by Tobias Ulmer.

Tested by running "make info".

OK for mainline?

Ian


2006-05-01  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@airs.com>

	* doc/invoke.texi (Warning Options): Add note to -Wall that some
	warnings are only emitted when optimizing.


Index: invoke.texi
===================================================================
--- invoke.texi	(revision 113430)
+++ invoke.texi	(working copy)
@@ -2795,11 +2795,13 @@ cases that are safe.
 @item -Wall
 @opindex Wall
 All of the above @samp{-W} options combined.  This enables all the
-warnings about constructions that some users consider questionable, and
-that are easy to avoid (or modify to prevent the warning), even in
-conjunction with macros.  This also enables some language-specific
-warnings described in @ref{C++ Dialect Options} and
-@ref{Objective-C and Objective-C++ Dialect Options}.
+warnings about constructions that some users consider questionable,
+and that are easy to avoid (or modify to prevent the warning), even in
+conjunction with macros.  Note that some of the warnings will only be
+emitted when optimizing, as they require expensive analyses of the
+source code.  This also enables some language-specific warnings
+described in @ref{C++ Dialect Options} and @ref{Objective-C and
+Objective-C++ Dialect Options}.
 @end table
 
 The following @option{-W@dots{}} options are not implied by @option{-Wall}.


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