re PR middle-end/42726 (-fno-common documentation inaccuracy)

2018-11-07  Sandra Loosemore  <sandra@codesourcery.com>

	PR middle-end/42726

	gcc/
	* doc/invoke.texi (Code Gen Options): Clarify -fno-common behavior.

From-SVN: r265906

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index a85868c..decc5a0 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2018-11-07  Sandra Loosemore  <sandra@codesourcery.com>
 
+       PR middle-end/42726
+       * doc/invoke.texi (Code Gen Options): Clarify -fno-common behavior.
+
+2018-11-07  Sandra Loosemore  <sandra@codesourcery.com>
+
        * doc/invoke.texi: Remove leading dash from @opindex entries
        throughout the file.
 

diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index e455b91..849bb76 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -13294,7 +13294,7 @@ C, and on some targets may carry a speed or code size penalty on
 variable references.
 
 The @option{-fno-common} option specifies that the compiler should instead
-place uninitialized global variables in the data section of the object file.
+place uninitialized global variables in the BSS section of the object file.
 This inhibits the merging of tentative definitions by the linker so
 you get a multiple-definition error if the same 
 variable is defined in more than one compilation unit.