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Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:36:57PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > 3. The quality of code at -O0 is really terrible
>
> That's a feature, no?
Actually it's a misfeature, in that it's worse than it needs to
be, and it's worse in ways that increase the time required to produce it
(since a larger volume of code then has to be handled by the back end,
assembler, and linker).
Debugging would be just as easy and natural if -O0 only made sure that
values of variables are written out to memory at positions where the
user can set a breakpoint; the code doesn't need to preserve every
operation exactly as written, or read variables in from memory that
are already in registers. Kind of an -O0.5 would be more desirable
than what we have now.