[PATCH] Document experimental nature of -fnew-ra?

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Thu Mar 11 22:16:00 GMT 2004


Michael,

I just realized we dropped this patch.  Do you agree to apply this to
mainline and the 3.4 branch?

2004-01-23  Dara Hazeghi  <dhazeghi@yahoo.com>

	* doc/install.texi: Note status of -fnew-ra.

--- doc/invoke.texi	Fri Jan 23 08:21:16 2004
+++ doc/invoke.texi.n	Fri Jan 23 09:05:37 2004
@@ -3835,8 +3835,8 @@
 @item -fnew-ra
 @opindex fnew-ra
 Use a graph coloring register allocator.  Currently this option is meant
-for testing, so we are interested to hear about miscompilations with
-@option{-fnew-ra}.
+only for testing.  Users should not specify this option, since it is not
+yet ready for production use.

 @item -fno-branch-count-reg
 @opindex fno-branch-count-reg

Gerald
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