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Re: [PATCH] Add -fchecking
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>,Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>,Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 10:12:32 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -fchecking
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On November 8, 2015 1:40:57 AM GMT+01:00, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>On 11/07/2015 01:47 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Richard Biener wrote:
>>> This adds -fchecking as a way to enable internal consistency checks
>>> even in release builds (or disable checking with -fno-checking - up
>to
>>> a certain extent - with checking enabled).
>>
>> How (much) do we want to advertize this?
>I don't think much -- it's really a developer-centric option.
Might be worth mentioning on bugs.html as sometimes miscompiles can be detected by -fchecking.
Richard.
>Jeff