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Re: Why -g flag?



On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:11:42PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Strange.  I usually debug binaries compiled with -O2 -g, and I've
> never had any problems doing so.  How could it be "all but useless"
> for you?

gdb gives no usable output...

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