Re: meaning of --enable-checking flags

2007-02-12 Thread Larry Evans
On 02/11/2007 05:59 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Larry Evans wrote: [snip] I can't comment on the contents, but that HTML file is generated from our texinfo documentation; the master source for that is gcc/doc/install.texi in our SVN repository. Gerald THanks Gerald. C

Re: meaning of --enable-checking flags

2007-02-11 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Larry Evans wrote: [snip] I tried downloading and editying http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html; however, I soon ran into problems. Attached is a diff between the original .html and the modifications I tried. It shows that even the comments in config.in are confusing :(

Re: meaning of --enable-checking flags

2007-02-11 Thread Larry Evans
On 02/11/2007 04:28 PM, Larry Evans wrote: [snip] I think a patch adding descriptions to the docs would be an improvement. Would you like to submit one? Thanks, --Kaveh I could, but the only thing I would do would be something like: The meaning of these flags can be inferred

Re: meaning of --enable-checking flags

2007-02-11 Thread Larry Evans
On 02/11/2007 02:16 PM, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Larry Evans wrote: [snip] describe what the flags mean. Could someone do that or provide a link to the descriptions. The --enable-checking values are described briefly in gcc/config.in, here's a link for quick access: http://

Re: meaning of --enable-checking flags

2007-02-11 Thread Kaveh R. GHAZI
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Larry Evans wrote: > The doc on --enable-checking at: > >http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html > > contains: > >--enable-checking=list > > and implies that list may either be a category (yes,all,release,no) or a > sequence of flags (e.g. fold,gcac,gc,valgrind); howe

Re: meaning of --enable-checking flags

2007-02-10 Thread Larry Evans
On 02/09/2007 12:18 PM, Larry Evans wrote: [snip] compiler. When just using --enable-checking=yes, I was able to use gdb to find that the value of __FILE__ was corrupted: (gdb) up #1 0x0809e6eb in tsubst (t=0x4034f8a0, args=0x40351ca8, complain=3, in_decl=0x4032eea0) at ../../gcc-4.1.1/gcc

meaning of --enable-checking flags

2007-02-09 Thread Larry Evans
The doc on --enable-checking at: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html contains: --enable-checking=list and implies that list may either be a category (yes,all,release,no) or a sequence of flags (e.g. fold,gcac,gc,valgrind); however, it doesn't describe what the flags mean. Could so