On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > -g3 ? What does that do. -g turns on debug symbols in object files, > but I didn't think it took a numeric argument. The numeric argument changes the level of debugging information from the default level 2 to level 1 (minimal - function names but no line numbers or variable names) or level 3 (extra info such as macro expansions).