diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 7889c7e7ddd2b6139d00e5fd9eb8f393826f261a..ecb30d0995723620ef1b12563bde843d740eb7d1 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-03-25  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+	* doc/invoke.texi (Debugging Options): Fix description of
+	-fno-merge-debug-strings.
+
 2009-03-24  Hans-Peter Nilsson  <hp@axis.com>
 
 	* config/cris/libgcc.ver: New version-script.
diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
index 40b72026ce20cb36c964967866cc9317f603a248..efef455d6a8b596e1cb472ed2101bfef51ef8838 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi
@@ -4408,11 +4408,11 @@ This option works only with DWARF 2.
 @item -fno-merge-debug-strings
 @opindex fmerge-debug-strings
 @opindex fno-merge-debug-strings
-Direct the linker to merge together strings which are identical in
-different object files.  This is not supported by all assemblers or
-linker.  This decreases the size of the debug information in the
-output file at the cost of increasing link processing time.  This is
-on by default.
+Direct the linker to not merge together strings in the debugging
+information which are identical in different object files.  Merging is
+not supported by all assemblers or linkers.  Merging decreases the size
+of the debug information in the output file at the cost of increasing
+link processing time.  Merging is enabled by default.
 
 @item -fdebug-prefix-map=@var{old}=@var{new}
 @opindex fdebug-prefix-map