[bind10-dev] About the --enable-debug configure switch

[Mukund Sivaraman]

Hi Tomek

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 05:20:22PM +0100, Tomek Mrugalski wrote:
> > Note that this has nothing to do with debuginfo for use in
> > debuggers (-g compiler option). -g would be enabled by default when
> > compiling BIND 10.
> Would it make sense to make --enable-debug also change -O2 into -O0?
> The code compiled with -O2 is often aggressively optimized and it's
> often difficult to track it in debugger.

I don't have a strong opinion. The --enable-debug argument changes the
code's behaviour, whereas changing -O2 to -O0 is a compiler flags
change, i.e., a compile-time thing.

                Mukund
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