On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> The attached patch removes the -fconserve-space flag, as discussed last
> week. Bootstrapped&tested on powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu. OK for trunk?
How about the following for the release notes?
(Happy to use a different/better rationale. This one's borrowed
from the old documentation. ;)
Gerald
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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ explicit use of vector types may be inco
built with older versions of GCC. Auto-vectorized code is not affected
by this change.</p>
-<h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2>
+<h2>General Optimizer Improvements (and Changes)</h2>
<ul>
<li>A new option <code>-ftree-partial-pre</code> was added to control
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ by this change.</p>
This option is enabled by default at the <code>-O3</code> optimization
level, and it makes PRE more aggressive.
</li>
+ <li>The option <code>-fconserve-space</code> has been removed; it
+ was no longer useful on most targets since GCC supports putting
+ variables into BSS without making them common.</li>
</ul>
