On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 06:57:35PM -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> Now the question comes down to this, how many users have complained
> about memory usage inside GCC compared to them complaining about
> optimized debugging info? I saw the first is more complained about,
I was trying to stay out of this discussion but...
That's a lame argument. People don't complain about GCC's optimized
debug info as much, because we've created the expectation that it (and
GDB's support for it) is crap. Every time someone starts working on
tools which require better debug info (off hand, I've seen Fred Fish,
Alexandre, RTH, and myself do this) they have problems GCC's debug
info. If the simple ones don't get fixed there's no point filing the
more complicated ones.
> Now tools that use debugging info to look at values at specific spots
> should know that they can't always get the most accurate view with
> optimized code (they never will be able to).
No, pretty much everything a compiler can conceivably do to your code
is expressible in debug info. And I gather that some other compilers
do much better at this than we do.