Should -fcross-jumping be part of -O1?
Geoff Keating
geoffk@geoffk.org
Tue Dec 2 20:15:00 GMT 2003
David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com> writes:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:26:07 -0800, "Zack Weinberg"
> <zack@codesourcery.com> said:
>
> > -O0 No optimization whatsoever.
> > Except maybe do obviously-dead code elimination.
>
> This is obviously a very special case, but dead code elimination
> sometimes makes it difficult to write tests for GDB's test suite. And
> even when working on real programs I occasionally insert dead code as
> a place where I can set breakpoints. So, personally, I'd prefer that
> -O0 be pretty stupid. (Though I don't mind if it's not the default.)
I thought that the dead code elimination at -O0 is supposed to work
properly with GDB: it puts in a 'nop' that the breakpoint can target.
Is this not working?
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>
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