On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 06:23:26PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > > well i'm not an expert on this. but are we 100% sure that a kernel on amd64 > compiled with -O2 frename-registers can be debugged the same way as one with > -O? if that is the case: sure...-O2 is fine. ;) > > however i've often read messages - mostly by bruce evans - claiming that > anything greater than -O will in fact decrease a kernel's ability to be > debugged just as well as a kernel with -O. >
The critical option when -O2 is used is -fno-omit-frame-pointers, since removing frame pointers makes debugging impossible (on i386). With -O2 code is moved around and removed, so debugging is more difficult, but can still provide useful information. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
