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Re: Why -g flag?



On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 06:48:36PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > gdb gives no usable output...
> 
> Maybe you stripped the file? I can perfectly debug code that has been
> optimized with -O2.. (in fact I do most debugging on optimized code, I'm
> simply to lazy to remove that flag I guess :) )

No, I was not even getting to that part of the build process where it
would be stripped, I was just building the source and using the binary in
the source dir.  The output of "where" on the unstripped -O2 binary was
not really even enough to tell where the crash happened, much less what
it was doing at the time.  That's why there's an epic4-dbg in extra now.

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