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Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?



On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 22:14 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Neil Williams:
> 
> > Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg
> > packages should not be available?
> 
> GCC's debugging information at -O2 will continue to worsen (in part as
> a result of -O2 getting better).

It's now quite capable of telling the debugger that a source line has
ended up in several different chunks of object code, and that a variable
moves around between memory and registers.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ...
and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds

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