David Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:38:49PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Is there any reason that the Sun Studio compiler still gets called with
> > -xO[1-5]/-O (=optimizer enabled) when "bldenv" was called with the debug
> > switch ("-d") ? Sometimes this makes debugging (or core dump analysis)
> > harder then neccesary... ;-(
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> The other reason is practical: though running debug bits will help us
> catch more bugs sooner, fewer people will do it if they have to run
> unoptimized binaries. There's already a performance penalty for
> running debug bits, and adding another (and probably much larger one)
> isn't going to win friends.
Ok... but sometimes it may be "nice" to have a non-optimized binary...
... would it be possible/usefull to add something like a "-D" switch to
"bldenv" which turns debugging "on" and the optimizer "off" (or uses
-"xO0", assuming dbx doesn't switch to it's "restricted" mode in this
case) ?
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Bye,
Roland
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