Commit 09a52fc3 by Richard Guenther Committed by Richard Biener

install.texi (--enable-gold): Remove.

2011-03-18  Richard Guenther  <rguenther@suse.de>

	* doc/install.texi (--enable-gold): Remove.
	(--with-plugin-ld): Document.
	* doc/invoke.texi (-fuse-linker-plugin): Clarify.

From-SVN: r171143
parent 4c5e955d
2011-03-18 Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
* doc/install.texi (--enable-gold): Remove.
(--with-plugin-ld): Document.
* doc/invoke.texi (-fuse-linker-plugin): Clarify.
2011-03-16 Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
PR middle-end/47790
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......@@ -1666,13 +1666,12 @@ GLIBC 2.11 or above, otherwise disabled.
Enable support for link-time optimization (LTO). This is enabled by
default, and may be disabled using @option{--disable-lto}.
@item --enable-gold
Enable support for using @command{gold} as the linker. If gold support is
enabled together with @option{--enable-lto}, an additional directory
@file{lto-plugin} will be built. The code in this directory is a
plugin for gold that allows the link-time optimizer to extract object
files with LTO information out of library archives. See
@option{-flto} and @option{-fwhopr} for details.
@item --with-plugin-ld=@var{pathname}
Enable an alternate linker to be used at link-time optimization (LTO)
link time when @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} is enabled.
This linker should have plugin support such as gold starting with
version 2.20 or GNU ld starting with version 2.21.
See @option{-fuse-linker-plugin} for details.
@end table
@subheading Cross-Compiler-Specific Options
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......@@ -7718,8 +7718,8 @@ Disabled by default.
@item -fuse-linker-plugin
Enables the use of linker plugin during link time optimization. This option
relies on the linker plugin support in linker that is available in @code{gold}
or in GNU ld 2.21.51 or newer..
relies on the linker plugin support in linker that is available in gold
or in GNU ld 2.21 or newer.
This option enables the extraction of object files with GIMPLE bytecode out of
library archives. This improves the quality of optimization by exposing more
......@@ -7730,7 +7730,7 @@ use hidden visibility) is similar to @code{-fwhole-program}. See
@option{-flto} for a description on the effect of this flag and how to use it.
Enabled by default when LTO support in GCC is enabled and GCC was compiled
with linker supporting plugins (GNU ld or @code{gold}).
with a linker supporting plugins (GNU ld 2.21 or newer or gold).
@item -fcompare-elim
@opindex fcompare-elim
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