Re: Why -g flag?
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 01:47:11PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > > - The installed binary is stripped and fully optimized.
> > > - It's easy to get an unstripped binary: just run debian/build,
> > > no makefile tinkering necessary.
> > > - The unstripped binary is useful for debugging core files generated
> > > by the installed binary.
>
> Debug the -O2 optimized program ? I don't think that it's the best
> debugging method... :)
Even -O -g is all but useless. For epic, I am building -O2 -Wall and -g
-Wall versions. In fact, I'm packaging them both too. epic4-dbg will
divert epic4's bins. I thought about alternatives, but diversions of
just the bins seems more right logically.
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