Do people find the "Option Summary" in the GCC manual useful?
Sandra Loosemore
sloosemore@baylibre.com
Mon Oct 27 02:03:40 GMT 2025
On 10/26/25 19:27, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> FWIW I search the info for the string until I hit the description.
>
> What I have been in need of recently is knowing when they first
> appeared. That can be done with git or manual archeology but if it was a
> standard part of documenting an option, that might e useful to more than
> just me.
Feel free to contribute a patch to add that information. ;-)
"git blame" on the .opt files works pretty well for things added since
we started using .opt files (2003?).
-Sandra
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