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On 11/26/05, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > Good afternoon, |
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> > Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF |
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> > executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we |
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> > want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined. |
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> > Having a split debug pretty much obsoletes the need to add nostrip to |
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> > your features in order to get debug info. |
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> > Users wishing to not have debug info can simply add |
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> > INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/debug ${INSTALL_MASK}" to make.conf or the |
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> > environment unless we make it FEATURE based. |
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> > I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you |
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> > think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..) |
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> How useful is this debug information with -fomit-frame-pointer? From |
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> what I have read it makes debugging at least harder. I think most people |
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> have -fomit-frame-pointer in their CFLAGS so it should not be enabled by |
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> default if the debug info is not very useful any way. |
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Well, only on x86 and other lacking arches... |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri |
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