On 04/21/2016 10:26 AM, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
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e9763d44d8d7aa6a64821a4b1811e55025aaaa4e..ddd4eeaec1502f871d0febd6045e37153c48a7e1
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--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -12827,9 +12827,9 @@ These options are defined for AArch64 implementations:
@item -mabi=@var{name}
@opindex mabi
Generate code for the specified data model. Permissible values
-are @samp{ilp32} for SysV-like data model where int, long int and pointer
+are @samp{ilp32} for SysV-like data model where int, long int and pointers
are 32-bit, and @samp{lp64} for SysV-like data model where int is 32-bit,
-but long int and pointer are 64-bit.
+but long int and pointers are 64-bit.
Can you please change all the incorrectly hyphenated "32-bit" and
"64-bit" uses in this section to "32 bits" and "64 bits" respectively?
("n-bit" should only be hyphenated when it is used as an adjective
phrase immediately before the noun it modifies.)
@@ -12872,7 +12871,8 @@ statically linked only.
@item -mstrict-align
@opindex mstrict-align
-Do not assume that unaligned memory references are handled by the system.
+Avoid generating unaligned accesses when accessing objects at non-naturally
+aligned boundaries as described in the architecture.
The new text seems repetitive and awkward to me. How about something like:
Avoid generating memory accesses that may not be aligned on a natural
object boundary as described in the architecture specification.
??
@@ -12916,10 +12916,11 @@ corresponding flag to the linker.
@item -mno-low-precision-recip-sqrt
@opindex -mlow-precision-recip-sqrt
@opindex -mno-low-precision-recip-sqrt
-When calculating the reciprocal square root approximation,
-uses one less step than otherwise, thus reducing latency and precision.
-This is only relevant if @option{-ffast-math} enables the reciprocal square
root
-approximation, which in turn depends on the target processor.
+Enable or disable reciprocal square root approximation.
+This option only has an effect if @option{-ffast-math} or
+@option{-funsafe-math-optimizations} is used as well. Enabling this reduces
+precision of reciprocal square root results to about 16 bits for
+single-precision and to 32 bits for double-precision.
"single precision" and "double precision" should not be hyphenated when
used as nouns, as they are here (only when used as an adjective phrase
immediately before the noun they modify).
@@ -13010,10 +13003,10 @@ This option is only intended to be useful when
developing GCC.
@item -mpc-relative-literal-loads
@opindex mpcrelativeliteralloads
What happened to that @opindex entry? :-(
-Enable PC relative literal loads. If this option is used, literal
-pools are assumed to have a range of up to 1MiB and an appropriate
-instruction sequence is used. This option has no impact when used
-with @option{-mcmodel=tiny}.
+Enable PC relative literal loads. With this option literal pools are
"PC-relative" should be hyphenated since this *is* and adjective phrase
immediately before the noun it modifies....
-Sandra the nit-picky
