first test

[Bryce McKinlay]

Andrew Cowie wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 17:28 -0400, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
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>>Also, you should compile your code with -O2 to get the best performance, 
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>Out of curiosity, if I compile using gcj with flags -O2 and -g, does
>anything good happen?
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>One gets various opinions about this subject. Obviously the binaries are
>going to be bigger, etc, but does -g negate -On, n>0?
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>[For that matter, I supposed I really aught to know the answer tho this
>for gcc in general too]
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"-O2 -g" is quite possible, however it can sometimes produce unexpected 
results when debugging. For example you might go to print the value of a 
local variable in gdb and find you can't because that variable got 
optimized away. This is true for both C and Java code.

Regards

Bryce