2016-01-20 3:42 GMT+03:00 Sandra Loosemore <san...@codesourcery.com>: > On 01/19/2016 03:24 AM, Ilya Enkovich wrote: >> >> 2016-01-19 5:25 GMT+03:00 Sandra Loosemore <san...@codesourcery.com>: >>> >>> I think the documentation relating to '-z bndplt' in the GCC manual >>> description of -fcheck-pointer-bounds is incorrect. It looks like, as of >>> r225862, the GCC driver is supposed to emit an error message if GCC was >>> configured with a linker that doesn't support this option and you pass >>> -mmpx >>> without -static. Is that right? I'll fix the documentation once I'm >>> clear >>> on what the actual behavior is. >> >> >> Compiler just emits a note where user is warned that GCC configuration may >> lead to decreased instrumentation coverage. > > > OK. Is the attached patch accurate? The existing text has several > markup/grammatical/spelling errors and I'd like to simplify it to make it > less repetitive and more direct and user-friendly.
I think your text accurately describes the situation. Thanks! Ilya > > (BTW, part of the problem I had parsing the code is that the manual doesn't > document the %n spec file syntax, or several other % escapes. I opened > PR69367 for that since I have too many other things in my pile to get to it > any time soon.) > > -Sandra
