From: Sandra Loosemore <sloosemore@baylibre.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 17:08:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: x86: Improve documentation for -msse4 [PR116708]
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x86: Improve documentation for -msse4 [PR116708]

gcc/ChangeLog
	PR target/116708
	* doc/invoke.texi (x86 Options): Clarify how -msse4 and -mno-sse4
	interact with other SSE options.
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index d9558022073..c61f3514070 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -35924,6 +35924,11 @@ These extensions are also available as built-in functions: see
 @ref{x86 Built-in Functions}, for details of the functions enabled and
 disabled by these switches.
 
+Note that @option{-msse4} enables both SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 support,
+while @option{-mno-sse4} turns off those features; neither form of the
+option affects SSE4A support, controlled separately by
+@option{-msse4a}.
+
 To generate SSE/SSE2 instructions automatically from floating-point
 code (as opposed to 387 instructions), see @option{-mfpmath=sse}.