On 11/01/2020 07:19, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Matthew Malcomson wrote:
>> gcc/ChangeLog:
>>
>> 2019-12-12 Matthew Malcomson <[email protected]>
>>
>> * doc/install.texi: Document bootstrap-asan configuration option.
>
> I see this introduces a new table.
>
>> +Some examples of build configurations designed for developers of GCC are:
>
> @samp{bootstrap-time}, @samp{bootstrap-debug-ckovw} and others appear
> to fall into the same camp, essentially expected to be used by maintainers
> only.
>
> Would it make sense to add your new option to the existing table, or
> perhaps see which other options from the existing table to move into
> your new one? Thoughts?
Sounds good me.
>
>
> The patch is okay modulo the question above.
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald
>
Patch with above suggestion.
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index
80b47812fe66a8ef50edf3aad9708ab3409ba7dc..0705759c69f64c6d06e91f7ae83bb8c1ad210f34
100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -2668,6 +2668,10 @@ Arranges for the run time of each program started
by the GCC driver,
built in any stage, to be logged to @file{time.log}, in the top level of
the build tree.
+@item @samp{bootstrap-asan}
+Compiles GCC itself using Address Sanitization in order to catch
invalid memory
+accesses within the GCC code.
+
@end table
@section Building a cross compiler
