On 3/2/20 11:52 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Martin Liška wrote:
+version of GCC@. If an option is supported by all languages, one needs
+to use @var{common} qualifier instead.
"common" is literal text, so it should be @samp{common} not @var{common},
and the existing documentation here describes it as a "class" with other
things such as "undocumented" or "joined" being "qualifiers"
Thank you for the comments. I've got an updated version of the patch.
Martin
>From 4fc81d25275a98493eaa9494e77dae9691fdbd20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Liska <mli...@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:25:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Clear --help=language and --help=common interaction.
gcc/ChangeLog:
2020-03-02 Martin Liska <mli...@suse.cz>
PR c/93886
PR c/93887
* doc/invoke.texi: Clarify --help=language and --help=common
interaction.
---
gcc/doc/invoke.texi | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 4f88fe68999..98102020f55 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -1665,7 +1665,8 @@ option.
@item @var{language}
Display the options supported for @var{language}, where
@var{language} is the name of one of the languages supported in this
-version of GCC@.
+version of GCC@. If an option is supported by all languages, one needs
+to select @samp{common} class.
@item @samp{common}
Display the options that are common to all languages.
--
2.25.1
