On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Sandra Loosemore wrote: > s/frontend/front end/ ?? > > (Since we have "middle end" and "back end" on the previous line.)
Absolutely -- I should have caught this. Is also is in line with https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html. Here is the updated patch I just committed. 2015-04-08 Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> * doc/install.texi (bootstrap-lto-noplugin): Rewrite. Index: doc/install.texi =================================================================== --- doc/install.texi (revision 221916) +++ doc/install.texi (working copy) @@ -2525,10 +2525,10 @@ @item @samp{bootstrap-lto-noplugin} This option is similar to @code{bootstrap-lto}, but is intended for -hosts that do not support the linker plugin. Please note that static -libraries are not compiled with link time optimizations without -linker plugin. Since GCC middle-end and back-end are in libbackend.a, -it means that only part of the frontend is actually LTO optimized. +hosts that do not support the linker plugin. Without the linker plugin +static libraries are not compiled with link-time optimizations. Since +the GCC middle end and back end are in @file{libbackend.a} this means +that only the front end is actually LTO optimized. @item @samp{bootstrap-debug} Verifies that the compiler generates the same executable code, whether
