Hi there, any comments on my proposed release notes entry below?
Gerald On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >> The attached patch removes the -fconserve-space flag, as discussed last >> week. Bootstrapped&tested on powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu. OK for trunk? > > How about the following for the release notes? > > (Happy to use a different/better rationale. This one's borrowed > from the old documentation. ;) > > Gerald > Index: changes.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.8/changes.html,v > retrieving revision 1.17 > diff -u -3 -p -r1.17 changes.html > --- changes.html 20 Aug 2012 12:23:39 -0000 1.17 > +++ changes.html 26 Aug 2012 00:11:29 -0000 > @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ explicit use of vector types may be inco > built with older versions of GCC. Auto-vectorized code is not affected > by this change.</p> > > -<h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2> > +<h2>General Optimizer Improvements (and Changes)</h2> > > <ul> > <li>A new option <code>-ftree-partial-pre</code> was added to control > @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ by this change.</p> > This option is enabled by default at the <code>-O3</code> optimization > level, and it makes PRE more aggressive. > </li> > + <li>The option <code>-fconserve-space</code> has been removed; it > + was no longer useful on most targets since GCC supports putting > + variables into BSS without making them common.</li> > </ul>
