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Date:      Mon, 05 Feb 1996 15:17:21 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw
Subject:   Re: make world with -fomit-frame-pointer 
Message-ID:  <199602052317.PAA03804@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 14:42:58 PST." <9602052242.AA01191@gnu.mc.xerox.com> 

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>>> 	option to make world ?  How about make kernel ?!
>>> 	About make kernel, will "-O2" or "-O2 -m486" make kernel run faster ?
>>> 
>>> 	Thanks.
>>> -- 
>>> 
>>>                  
>
>I didn't read the message fully before I replied...
>
>-fomit-frame-pointer is something I've only seen in Linux.
>
>With -fomit-frame-pointer, you can't debug code...core dumps are
>meaningless...Please don't do it!!
>
>The only place where it may be useful is in the kernel.

   We strip the symbol table from system utilities before installing them
(making debugging impossible), so why do you think -fomit-frame-pointer will
make things any worse in this respect?

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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