Index: doc/invoke.texi =================================================================== --- doc/invoke.texi (revision 173499) +++ doc/invoke.texi (working copy) @@ -7701,17 +7701,17 @@ 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 gold +Enables the use of a linker plugin during link time optimization. This option +relies on plugin support in the linker, which 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 -code the link time optimizer. This information specify what symbols +code to the link time optimizer. This information specifies what symbols can be accessed externally (by non-LTO object or during dynamic linking). Resulting code quality improvements on binaries (and shared libraries that do -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. +use hidden visibility) are similar to @code{-fwhole-program}. See +@option{-flto} for a description of 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 a linker supporting plugins (GNU ld 2.21 or newer or gold).