On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:42:07 GMT k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote: > it addresses an issue that > some people may not know about, so maybe it would be good to > briefly explain further? > > I agree, thanks. I changed the text to look like this: > > By default, the Make rules should compile and link with @samp{-g}, > so that executable programs have debugging symbols. Otherwise, you > are essentially helpless in the face of a crash, and it is often far > from easy to reproduce with a fresh build.
Sigh. Make sure you *do not* really put my name in the Changelog, then, because this is not at all what I was suggesting -- everyone who uses make knows *what debugging symbols are for*. What they may not know, and what I did not know, was that *they do not degrade performance* under normal conditions. So congrats on a pointless re-wording, hopefully someone can go through this again later ;) -- "The angel of history[...]is turned toward the past." (Walter Benjamin)