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