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Re: [PATCH] remove mention of -a and -ax in invoke.texi for 3.2
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:01:57PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Janis Johnson wrote:
> > The message http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-10/msg01615.html reported
> > that the 3.2 documentation references the -a and -ax options. The
> > documentation for those options was removed, but they were still
> > mentioned in the entry for -profile-arcs.
>
> Given this...
>
> > OK for the 3.2 branch? This text is already gone in the mainline.
> >
> > 2002-10-28 Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com>
> >
> > * doc/invoke.texi (-profile-arcs): Remove references to -a and -ax.
>
> ...the patch seems to fall under the "obvious rule"?
>
> -This option makes it possible to estimate branch probabilities and to
> -calculate basic block execution counts.
>
> Should this part really be removed as well?
It was gone from the mainline so I removed it from the branch. The
information is implied in the first part of this section, and it would
look out of place to leave this sentence at the end.
Janis