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[doc, committed] clarify documentation of cache parameters
- From: Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:43:56 -0700
- Subject: [doc, committed] clarify documentation of cache parameters
Continuing to whack at trivial doc issues in bugzilla....
This patch is for PR 59634, which is to clarify that some cache-related
parameters control attributes of the data cache and not the instruction
cache.
-Sandra
2018-11-13 Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
PR middle-end/59634
gcc/
* doc/invoke.texi (Optimize Options): Clarify that the
l1-cache-line-size, l1-cache-size, and l2-cache-size parameters
apply to data cache size.
Index: gcc/doc/invoke.texi
===================================================================
--- gcc/doc/invoke.texi (revision 266044)
+++ gcc/doc/invoke.texi (working copy)
@@ -11164,13 +11164,13 @@ streams being prefetched (see @option{si
Maximum number of prefetches that can run at the same time.
@item l1-cache-line-size
-The size of cache line in L1 cache, in bytes.
+The size of cache line in L1 data cache, in bytes.
@item l1-cache-size
-The size of L1 cache, in kilobytes.
+The size of L1 data cache, in kilobytes.
@item l2-cache-size
-The size of L2 cache, in kilobytes.
+The size of L2 data cache, in kilobytes.
@item prefetch-dynamic-strides
Whether the loop array prefetch pass should issue software prefetch hints