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Re: When to emit C++ debug info?
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
| > We can build on the cfront virtual function table heuristic: only emit
| > debug information for a class in the unit that implements the virtual
| > function table. "But someone might give me a library with no debug
| > information". Fine, we can have a flag that causes full debug info
| > to be emitted to cover that case, but it should not be the default.
|
| I believe the summary of my arguments at this point is, the use of C++
| libraries without debug info is a great deal more common than GCC
| developers believe
Well, I disagree with point. It has been a failing point for some
libraries like V3 for a long time. Other implementers (with larger
user base community) have managed to supply debugged libraries years
before us. And thanks to the recent work on ddebug mode by Benjamin,
Doug et al. we're hopefully going to catch up. That we've only
"discovered" debugged libraries recently is probably a sign of how
"ghettorized" we've gotten :-/
-- Gaby