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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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In-reply-to: <8f2776cb0512041400x257a1889u8fb53eb23e62ce49@mail.gmail.com> 	(message from Jim Blandy on Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:00:21 -0800)
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] Deal with -g1 generated DWARF2 debug info
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> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:00:21 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
>
> The central issue here is that the compiler is emitting incorrect
> debug info.  The GCC manual says of -g1:
> 
>      Level 1 produces minimal information, enough for making backtraces
>      in parts of the program that you don't plan to debug.  This
>      includes descriptions of functions and external variables, but no
>      information about local variables and no line numbers.
> 
> Nothing there about reducing all return types to 'void'.

But fixing that would probably require that GCC dumps the complete
type info, which would reduce the usefulness of -g1.  And that doesn't
change the fact that GCC probably has been doing this for quite some
time now.