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Re: Small error in manual
* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:51:01AM CET:
>
> Really the original text is slightly wrong.
[...]
> This option only applies to strings in debugging information. It should
> say something like "Direct the linker to not merge together strings in
> the debugging information which are identical in different object
> files." Also I think s/It decreases/Merging decreases/.
>
> OK with those changes.
Thanks, this is how I applied it (also s/assemblers or linker/&s/)
after retesting.
Cheers,
Ralf
2009-03-25 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/invoke.texi (Debugging Options): Fix description of
-fno-merge-debug-strings.
Index: gcc/doc/invoke.texi
===================================================================
--- gcc/doc/invoke.texi (revision 145050)
+++ gcc/doc/invoke.texi (working copy)
@@ -4408,11 +4408,11 @@
@item -fno-merge-debug-strings
@opindex fmerge-debug-strings
@opindex fno-merge-debug-strings
-Direct the linker to merge together strings which are identical in
-different object files. This is not supported by all assemblers or
-linker. This decreases the size of the debug information in the
-output file at the cost of increasing link processing time. This is
-on by default.
+Direct the linker to not merge together strings in the debugging
+information which are identical in different object files. Merging is
+not supported by all assemblers or linkers. Merging decreases the size
+of the debug information in the output file at the cost of increasing
+link processing time. Merging is enabled by default.
@item -fdebug-prefix-map=@var{old}=@var{new}
@opindex fdebug-prefix-map