Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 23:42 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Ned Ludd wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> > 
> > Would you be willing to give up space in $ROOT/usr/lib/debug for ELF
> > executables by default in order to aid in better debugging by or do we
> > want to only emit it when a FEATURE= is defined.
> > 
> > Having a split debug pretty much obsoletes the need to add nostrip to
> > your features in order to get debug info.
> > 
> > Users wishing to not have debug info can simply add
> > INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/debug ${INSTALL_MASK}" to make.conf or the
> > environment unless we make it FEATURE based.
> > 
> > I'm in favor of it enabled per default but I'd like to know what you
> > think and why. (advantages of on/off by default etc..)
> > 
> 
> How useful is this debug information with -fomit-frame-pointer? From
> what I have read it makes debugging at least harder. I think most people
> have -fomit-frame-pointer in their CFLAGS so it should not be enabled by
> default if the debug info is not very useful any way.
> 
> Regards,
> Petteri

-fomit-frame-pointer does indeed make certain aspects of debugging
harder but it does not moot the idea entirely.

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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