I've committed this patch to document recent addition. Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-6/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 changes.html --- changes.html 14 Jul 2015 12:55:08 -0000 1.14 +++ changes.html 21 Jul 2015 09:29:51 -0000 @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ <li>A new command-line option <code>-Wshift-negative-value</code> has been added for the C and C++ compilers, which warns about left shifting a negative value.</li> + <li>A new command-line option <code>-Wshift-overflow</code> has been + added for the C and C++ compilers, which warns about left shift + overflows. <code>-Wshift-overflow=2</code> also warns about + left-shifting 1 into the sign bit.</li> </ul> <h3 id="c">C</h3>
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