Re: When to emit C++ debug info?

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Jan 3, 2004, at 8:05 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:

> Geoff Keating writes:
> > I think we'll want to be able to do it these ways:
> > - One way where the minimal debugging information is emitted so that
> >   when put together, the whole program has complete debugging
> >   information; and
> > - Another way where complete information is emitted for a single file.
> >
> > I'm not sure why you'd want something between these two extremes.
>
> Why not always do #2, and have the linker eliminate the duplicate
> information?
This is of course, the right solution in all but the weirdest cases.
Unfortunately, making BFD do this is well, non-trivial, to say the 
least.
--Dan