diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 3b8e28f3708..c60e891b126 100644
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-02-08  Hans-Peter Nilsson  <hp@axis.com>
+
+	* doc/extend.texi (Function Attributes) <noinline>: Mention
+	asm ("") as method to keep calls.
+
 2008-02-07  Manuel Lopez-Ibanez  <manu@gcc.gnu.org>
 
 	PR other/32754
diff --git a/gcc/doc/extend.texi b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
index 7711e1f7406..b29e5b25446 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/extend.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/extend.texi
@@ -2519,6 +2519,17 @@ Functions with this attribute will not be so instrumented.
 @cindex @code{noinline} function attribute
 This function attribute prevents a function from being considered for
 inlining.
+@c Don't enumerate the optimizations by name here; we try to be
+@c future-compatible with this mechanism.
+If the function does not have side-effects, there are optimizations
+other than inlining that causes function calls to be optimized away,
+although the function call is live.  To keep such calls from being
+optimized away, put
+@smallexample
+asm ("");
+@end smallexample
+(@pxref{Extended Asm}) in the called function, to serve as a special
+side-effect.
 
 @item nonnull (@var{arg-index}, @dots{})
 @cindex @code{nonnull} function attribute