My previous attempt to fix this issue ended up garbling the text
instead. Trying again to make the descriptions of the attribute and
command-line option consistent.
gcc/ChangeLog
PR middle-end/111659
* doc/extend.texi (Common Variable Attributes): Copy-edit description
of the strict_flex_array attribute levels.
* doc/invoke.texi (C Dialect Options): Swap documented behavior for
levels 0 and 3. Copy the description for the other levels from the
attribute instead of indirecting to it.
---
gcc/doc/extend.texi | 4 ++--
gcc/doc/invoke.texi | 18 ++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
index 12fe7bc3345..ebd970155f7 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
@@ -8328,11 +8328,11 @@ only when the trailing array is declared as a flexible
array member per C99
standard onwards (@samp{[]}), it is treated as a flexible array member.
There are two more levels in between 0 and 3, which are provided to
-support older codes that use GCC zero-length array extension
+support older code that uses the GCC zero-length array extension
(@samp{[0]}) or one-element array as flexible array members
(@samp{[1]}). When @var{level} is 1, the trailing array is treated as
a flexible array member when it is declared as either @samp{[]},
-@samp{[0]}, or @samp{[1]}; When @var{level} is 2, the trailing array
+@samp{[0]}, or @samp{[1]}. When @var{level} is 2, the trailing array
is treated as a flexible array member when it is declared as either
@samp{[]}, or @samp{[0]}.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 67a3c8fd91e..0fdf8501585 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -2980,16 +2980,22 @@ member for the purpose of accessing the elements of
such an array. The value
of @var{level} controls the level of strictness.
@option{-fstrict-flex-arrays} is equivalent to
-@option{-fstrict-flex-arrays=3}, which is the strictest; all
-trailing arrays of structures are treated as flexible array members.
+@option{-fstrict-flex-arrays=3}, which is the strictest;
+a trailing array is treated as a flexible array member only when
+it is declared as a flexible array member per C99 standard onwards.
The negative form @option{-fno-strict-flex-arrays} is equivalent to
@option{-fstrict-flex-arrays=0}, which is the least strict. In this
-case a trailing array is treated as a flexible array member only when
-it is declared as a flexible array member per C99 standard onwards.
+case all trailing arrays of structures are treated as flexible array members.
-The possible values of @var{level} are the same as for the
-@code{strict_flex_array} attribute (@pxref{Variable Attributes}).
+There are two more levels in between 0 and 3, which are provided to
+support older code that uses the GCC zero-length array extension
+(@samp{[0]}) or one-element array as flexible array members
+(@samp{[1]}). When @var{level} is 1, the trailing array is treated as
+a flexible array member when it is declared as either @samp{[]},
+@samp{[0]}, or @samp{[1]}. When @var{level} is 2, the trailing array
+is treated as a flexible array member when it is declared as either
+@samp{[]}, or @samp{[0]}.
You can control this behavior for a specific trailing array field of a
structure by using the variable attribute @code{strict_flex_array} attribute
--
2.25.1
