C++ Optimization with g++

Ken Foskey foskey@optushome.com.au
Thu Feb 19 21:48:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 01:12, David.Carter-Hitchin wrote:

> How can I find out why -O[0123] fails?  Is there a strategy I can follow
> or doc I should read?  Is there a "simple" way of debugging my way out of
> this situation, or is there no alternative to inspecting the assembly?

Profiling sounds like what you need.  Look up the -gp option which
switches the profile on and then gprof, there is also a kde program to
support this.

If you are on Intel Linux you might want to look up valgrind to trace
whether there are any memory problems.

-- 
Thanks
KenF
OpenOffice.org developer



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