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Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

A plan to fix local variable debug information in GCC

by Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>

2007-12-18 draft

Thank you for writing this. It makes an enormous difference.


== Goals 

I note that you don't say anything about the other big problem with
debugging optimized code, which is that the debugger jumps around all
over the place.  That is fine, of course.


I don't think it is fine, we have constant complaints from our
users about this. I think we definitely need an optimization
level that avoids this.

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