From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
Cc: Aditya Chugh <Aditya@in.huawei.com>, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: MACROS in gdb ???
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010321115143.24397N-100000@is>
References: <1010320165053.ZM10189@ocotillo.lan>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00221.html

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> I usually make an attempt at figuring out the problem in the
> optimized version; but sometimes either there just isn't enough
> debug information or the behavior is too confusing.  At that point,
> I'll recompile the source file in question with lower optimization.

Yes, I agree: turning off optimizations should be the last resort, if
debugging optimized code is so confusing that you can't figure out
what's going on.

I find that it is usually unnecessary to turn off optimizations,
except in very rare cases.