omit-frame-pointer

[Adam Megacz]

This still works, and I have verified that it still results in a huge
reduction in .eh_frame.

  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1997-10/msg00569.html

  - a

Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@hotmail.com> writes:
> 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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