From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Gcc options for improving debugging?
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060719130547.GA18159@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153308778.9831.49.camel@okra.transitives.com>
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:32:58PM +0100, Alex Bennee wrote:
> An alternate approach is to compile with -O3 but turn off specific
> optimisations which make life tricky for gdb. So far I have:
>
> * -ggdb3 (obviously)
This doesn't really give you anything beyond -g. The only difference
is that it will allow you to expand macros, and make your object files
huge.
> * -fno-omit-frame-pointer (seems to help with finding some variables)
>
> What else would you suggest? Would this be worth adding to section 4.1
> of the manual "Compiling for debugging".
Beyond this there's not really much you can do. If you need inlining,
you're in trouble, because GDB does not (yet) have decent inlining
support - but it's on the list of things to improve.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-19 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-19 13:05 Alex Bennee
2006-07-19 13:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-07-19 17:50 ` Alex Bennee
2006-07-19 17:53 ` Paul Koning
2006-07-20 15:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-19 17:33 ` Paul Koning
2006-07-20 16:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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