being kinda particular in my wording here, sorry

Author: savannahostrowski

Doc/using/configure.rst

@@ -784,12 +784,13 @@ also be used to improve performance.
 
    Disable frame pointers, which are enabled by default (see :pep:`831`).
 
-   By default, the build appends ``-fno-omit-frame-pointer`` and
-   ``-mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer`` to ``BASECFLAGS`` so profilers,
-   debuggers, and system tracing tools (``perf``, ``eBPF``, ``dtrace``,
-   ``gdb``) can walk the C call stack without DWARF metadata. The flags
-   propagate to third-party C extensions through :mod:`sysconfig`, and
-   are silently skipped on compilers that do not understand them.
+   By default, the build appends ``-fno-omit-frame-pointer`` (and
+   ``-mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer`` when the compiler supports it) to
+   ``BASECFLAGS`` so profilers, debuggers, and system tracing tools
+   (``perf``, ``eBPF``, ``dtrace``, ``gdb``) can walk the C call stack
+   without DWARF metadata. The flags propagate to third-party C
+   extensions through :mod:`sysconfig`. On compilers that do not
+   understand them, the build silently skips them.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.15