Index: doc/invoke.texi =================================================================== --- doc/invoke.texi (revision 173528) +++ doc/invoke.texi (working copy) @@ -7701,17 +7701,18 @@ 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 -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. +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 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 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).