Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> writes: > > The wish for more granular and thus smaller debug information (things like > -gfunction-arguments which would properly show parameter values > for backtraces) was brought up. We agree that this should be addressed at a > tools level, like in strip, not in the compiler.
Is that really the right level? In my experience (very roughly) -g can turn gcc from CPU bound to IO bound (especially considering distributed compiling appraches), and dropping unnecessary information in external tools would make the IO penalty even worse. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
