omit-frame-pointer

[Ranjit Mathew]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Adam Megacz top-posted:
[...]
>  > BTW, rth posted a patch back in '99 that cuts DWARF2 debug info down
>  > to 20% of its usual size when -fno-omit-frame-pointer is the case.
> 
> What happened to it?  Why wasn't it committed?

Whether it was committed or not, even now the DW2
information generated with -fomit-frame-pointer is
bigger than with -fno-omit-frame-pointer.

You can verify it by looking at the generated
assembler code.

Ranjit.

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