Do people find the "Option Summary" in the GCC manual useful?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 16:12, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025, 2:41 AM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2025, 01:28 Joel Sherrill, <joel.sherrill@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> FWIW I search the info for the string until I hit the description.
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>>> 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.
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>> I created https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/WarningHistory to document that for warnings, but I haven't updated it in years.
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> That gets up to GCC 8. That's old but not ancient history.
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> Is the trick to do a git diff between tags of successive versions? That page has some added along a branch.

Sorry, I don't remember what I did to create that list!


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> I think I will add updating that page to my to-do list.
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> Thanks.
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> --joel
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