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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:42:58 PST
From:      "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
To:        <jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
Cc:        Chien-Ta Lee <jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make world with -fomit-frame-pointer 
Message-ID:  <9602052242.AA01191@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Feb 1996 09:20:08 PST." <9602051720.AA00240@gnu.mc.xerox.com> 

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In message <9602051720.AA00240@gnu.mc.xerox.com>,   you write:
>> 
>> 	Hi :
>> 
>> 	I noticed an gcc option from recently pentium-gcc discussions,
>> 	that's "-fomit-frame-pointer". (I remembered linux often use it)
>> 	I man gcc and it said that the option will make debug impossible.
>> 	I always making my world with "-O2 -m486", is it ok to use this
>> 	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.

marty



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