On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 23:42 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > Ned Ludd wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > > Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF > > executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we > > want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined. > > > > Having a split debug pretty much obsoletes the need to add nostrip to > > your features in order to get debug info. > > > > Users wishing to not have debug info can simply add > > INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/debug ${INSTALL_MASK}" to make.conf or the > > environment unless we make it FEATURE based. > > > > I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you > > think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) > > > > How useful is this debug information with -fomit-frame-pointer? From > what I have read it makes debugging at least harder. I think most people > have -fomit-frame-pointer in their CFLAGS so it should not be enabled by > default if the debug info is not very useful any way. > > Regards, > Petteri
-fomit-frame-pointer does indeed make certain aspects of debugging harder but it does not moot the idea entirely. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list