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Re: PR 23551: why should we coalesce inlined variables?
On Jul 9, 2007, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2007, "Daniel Berlin" <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
>> Just so we are straight here, o the ones who debug at -O2 -g are
>> normal, but the people who make code like the testcase are unusual.
>> :)
> If you still think debug information is something we emit to make the
> use of GDB more bearable, let me welcome you to the 21st century.
> People have been using debug information for all sorts of things.
> Some examples:
Rats, I forgot one of the most important and demanding ones:
- huge code bases, that take weeks to build even in build clusters:
seriously, tell them to rebuild with -O0 -g such that they can debug
and they will laugh you out and focus on the other compiler vendors
they're already doing business with
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