Re: --enable-debug does not work with gcc

Hi,

On 2/2/07, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)alcove(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, NikhilS wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Indeed it does, apologies for not doing the entire groundwork. But what
> it
> > also does is that it adds -O2 by default for gcc even when
> --enable-debug is
> > specified. gdb is not able to navigate the stack traces properly with
> this
> > optimization in place. Especially tracing of static functions becomes
> > difficult. Has this issue been faced by anybody else? If so can try out
> a
> > patch to avoid using O2 with enable-debug.
>
> Yes, this is known. The thing with gcc is, it only emits some warnings at
> -O2. I'm not that this is why we do not set optimisation to 0 but have
> long assumed it to be the case. I imagine that it's fairly standard
> practice for people doing debugging to CFLAGS=-O0 as an argument to
> configure.
>
> True, this is how I myself circumvent this problem too. But IMHO,
explicitly passing CFLAGS when we are invoking --enable-debug (which does
add -g, but leaves some optimization flag around which deters debugging)
does not seem correct?

Regards,
Nikhils

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