From: Piotr Padlewski <piotr.padlewski@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:20:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add -fstrict-vtable-pointers to UsersManual
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fae0c15ab2dceb31c9ff4c8e384a0ba4780988f4;p=clang

Add -fstrict-vtable-pointers to UsersManual

Summary: Add missing flag to UsersManual
It would be good to merge it to 4.0 branch.

Reviewers: hans

Subscribers: cfe-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D28727

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@292112 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/UsersManual.rst b/docs/UsersManual.rst
index 5c1646f531..d7554a7425 100644
--- a/docs/UsersManual.rst
+++ b/docs/UsersManual.rst
@@ -1097,6 +1097,13 @@ are listed below.
    the behavior of sanitizers in the ``cfi`` group to allow checking
    of cross-DSO virtual and indirect calls.
 
+
+.. option:: -fstrict-vtable-pointers
+   Enable optimizations based on the strict rules for overwriting polymorphic
+   C++ objects, i.e. the vptr is invariant during an object's lifetime.
+   This enables better devirtualization. Turned off by default, because it is
+   still experimental.
+
 .. option:: -ffast-math
 
    Enable fast-math mode. This defines the ``__FAST_MATH__`` preprocessor