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Re: egcs build report (-g flag standard)
- To: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: egcs build report (-g flag standard)
- From: N8TM at aol dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 21:39:36 EDT
One part of my job is maintenance of a code put together from buggy old
government-funded pieces. I maintain a version compiled with hardware
vendors' compilers for speed and an identical source version compiled with
gcc/g77 -O -g. The egcs compiled version takes little more disk space (less
when gzipped) than the vendor compiled version and takes less time to compile
and only 50% longer to run in the worst cases, which is a decent trade for
convenience in chasing bugs. As there are bugs in all compilers, particularly
on hpux, I've found -g valuable there too, and I must extend thanks for the
assistance from egcs-bugs in fixing some of them.