2004-03-19 Per Bothner * gcj.texi (Code Generation): Document new flags and assert defaults. Index: gcj.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/java/gcj.texi,v retrieving revision 1.58 diff -u -p -r1.58 gcj.texi --- gcj.texi 17 Mar 2004 00:00:40 -0000 1.58 +++ gcj.texi 19 Mar 2004 23:31:17 -0000 @@ -431,6 +431,27 @@ to initialize static classes upon their isn't carried out if @code{-C} was specified.) When compiling to native code, @code{-fno-optimize-static-class-initialization} will turn this optimization off, regardless of the optimization level in use. + +@item --disable-assertions[=@var{class-or-package}] +Don't include code for checking assertions in the compiled code. +If @code{=@var{class-or-package}} is missing disables assertion code +generation for all classes, unless overrideen by a more +specific @code{--enable-assertions} flag. +If @var{class-or-package} is a class name, only disables generating +assertion checks within the named class or its inner classes. +If @var{class-or-package} is a package name, disables generating +assertion checks within the named package or a subpackage. + +By default, assertions are enabled when generating class files +or when not optimizaing, and disabled when generating optimized binaries. + +@item --enable-assertions[=@var{class-or-package}] +Generates code to check assertions. The option is perhaps misnamed, +as you still need to turn on assertion checking at run-time, +and we don't support any easy way to do that. +So this flag isn't very useful yet, except to partially override +@code{--disable-assertions}. + @end table