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diff --git a/gcc/doc/plugins.texi b/gcc/doc/plugins.texi index a938e02bb61..77000fee646 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/plugins.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/plugins.texi @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ The plugin arguments are parsed by GCC and passed to respective plugins as key-value pairs. Multiple plugins can be invoked by specifying multiple @option{-fplugin} arguments. +A plugin can be simply given by its short name (no dots or +slashes). When simply passing @option{-fplugin=NAME}, the plugin is +loaded from the @file{plugin} directory, so @option{-fplugin=NAME} is +the same as @option{-fplugin=`gcc -print-file-name=plugin`/NAME.so}, +using backquote shell syntax to query the @file{plugin} directory. @section Plugin API @@ -407,6 +412,9 @@ On most systems, you can query this @code{plugin} directory by invoking @command{gcc -print-file-name=plugin} (replace if needed @command{gcc} with the appropriate program path). +Inside plugins, this @code{plugin} directory name can be queried by +calling @code{default_plugin_dir_name ()}. + The following GNU Makefile excerpt shows how to build a simple plugin: @smallexample |