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Doc fix for -Wuninitialized



The manual implies that you need -W to get warnings about longjmp()
clobbering variables, but actually it's -Wuninitialized that controls
it, and it _is_ turned on by -Wall.

-- 
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

===File ~/patches/cygnus/setjmp-doc-fix.patch===============
Changed files:
egcs/gcc/invoke.texi
--- /sloth/disk0/co/egcs-mainline/egcs/gcc/invoke.texi	Wed Aug 18 20:36:47 1999
+++ egcs/gcc/invoke.texi	Fri Aug 20 17:01:33 1999
@@ -1532,6 +1532,16 @@ another common case:
 @noindent
 This has no bug because @code{save_y} is used only if it is set.
 
+@cindex @code{longjmp} warnings
+This option also warns when a nonvolatile automatic variable might be
+changed by a call to @code{longjmp}.
+
+The compiler sees only the calls to @code{setjmp}.  It cannot know
+where @code{longjmp} will be called; in fact, a signal handler could
+call it at any point in the code.  As a result, you may get a warning
+even when there is in fact no problem because @code{longjmp} cannot
+in fact be called at the place which would cause a problem.
+
 Some spurious warnings can be avoided if you declare all the functions
 you use that never return as @code{noreturn}.  @xref{Function
 Attributes}.
@@ -1564,18 +1574,6 @@ the warning.
 Print extra warning messages for these events:
 
 @itemize @bullet
-@cindex @code{longjmp} warnings
-@item
-A nonvolatile automatic variable might be changed by a call to
-@code{longjmp}.  These warnings as well are possible only in
-optimizing compilation.
-
-The compiler sees only the calls to @code{setjmp}.  It cannot know
-where @code{longjmp} will be called; in fact, a signal handler could
-call it at any point in the code.  As a result, you may get a warning
-even when there is in fact no problem because @code{longjmp} cannot
-in fact be called at the place which would cause a problem.
-
 @item
 A function can return either with or without a value.  (Falling
 off the end of the function body is considered returning without
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