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Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC
"Richard Guenther" <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
> [...] I chose to ignore this problem and say we debug the optimized
> program, not the source as far as life ranges are concerned. [...]
Yes, and this choice has a certain pragmatism. However, it seems to
miss the basic observation that what drives debugging are the
programmer-user's needs, not the compiler-writer's needs. A
programmer-user is primarily interested in his source, and I bet most
would prefer not to think about optimization artifacts at all. It
would be a disservice to amplify the visibility of the latter.
- FChE