Re: When to emit C++ debug info?

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Jan 5, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
>
> | I'll simply note that compilers which provide fast compile-link-debug
> | cycles (MSVC for instance) usually use some kind of separated debug
> | info to do this (and eliminate as they compile), and *not* 
> heuristics.
> |
> | But since nobody seems to agree, i'll simply go away.
>
> Well, I support separate debug info; I consider emitting everyting in
> the .o file a non-starter.  If that makes you go away, that is sade.

I consider emitting everything in a .o to be a non-starter too, more or 
less.
But I *also*  consider trying to come up with magical heuristics that 
arguably don't even work in the common case, to be a non-starter.
>
Maybe we should be exploring *why* everyone else use separated debug 
info, and not heuristics, before claiming the heuristics are a good 
idea.
--Dan