As suggested by Jakub in https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-10/msg00305.html . The warning name isn't so super for us, but the option is undocumented anyway; maybe it means "warn for particularly surprising abi differences".
2016-10-06 Segher Boessenkool <seg...@kernel.crashing.org> * config/rs6000/rs6000.c (rs6000_return_in_memory): Warn for vector return by reference only if -Wpsabi. (rs6000_pass_by_reference): Similarly, for argument passing. --- gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c index e93688a..f0927db 100644 --- a/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c +++ b/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.c @@ -10894,7 +10894,7 @@ rs6000_return_in_memory (const_tree type, const_tree fntype ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) static bool warned_for_return_big_vectors = false; if (!warned_for_return_big_vectors) { - warning (0, "GCC vector returned by reference: " + warning (OPT_Wpsabi, "GCC vector returned by reference: " "non-standard ABI extension with no compatibility guarantee"); warned_for_return_big_vectors = true; } @@ -12552,7 +12552,7 @@ rs6000_pass_by_reference (cumulative_args_t cum ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, fprintf (stderr, "function_arg_pass_by_reference: synthetic vector\n"); if (!warned_for_pass_big_vectors) { - warning (0, "GCC vector passed by reference: " + warning (OPT_Wpsabi, "GCC vector passed by reference: " "non-standard ABI extension with no compatibility guarantee"); warned_for_pass_big_vectors = true; } -- 1.9.3