From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26457 invoked by alias); 4 Jan 2003 02:36:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 26439 invoked by uid 71); 4 Jan 2003 02:36:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 02:36:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20030104023603.26435.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: other/8947: Please add a Warning about "-malign-double" in docs Reply-To: Daniel Jacobowitz X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR other/8947; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Janis Johnson Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, norbert_wolff@t-online.de Subject: Re: other/8947: Please add a Warning about "-malign-double" in docs Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:27:13 -0500 On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:55:05PM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote: > The mainline version of install.texi includes the following > after the description of -malign-double: > > @strong{Warning:} if you use the @samp{-malign-double} > switch, structures containing the above types will be > aligned differently than the published application binary > interface specifications for the 386. > > If that's not strong enough, we could also add: > > Code compiled with @option{-malign-double} is not binary > compatible with code compiled without that switch. > > Similar language is now used for warnings about several > other options. I think that your proposed addition is exactly what we should say about this; it's much clearer to the layperson. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer