On 03/31/2013 05:08 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 27/03/13 12:49, Allan McRae wrote: >> On 27/03/13 12:22, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >>> With pacman 4.1 just around the corner, we'll be getting support for >>> split debug information soon. >>> >>> I would like to recommend "-gdwarf-4 -fvar-tracking-assignments" as >>> our default debug flags in makepkg.conf. These flags should allow for >>> better debug information in the presence of optimization (less <value >>> optimized out>; see man gcc). >> >> This is probably a better reference than the man page: >> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html >> >>> Thoughts? >> >> Note with gcc-4.8: >> >> DWARF4 is now the default when generating DWARF debug information. When >> -g is used on a platform that uses DWARF debugging information, GCC will >> now default to -gdwarf-4 -fno-debug-types-section. >> > > Any comments? You have ~12 hours... > > I will use "-g -fvar-tracking-assignments" if no-one comments otherwise. > > Allan >
+1 Maybe this is a good opportunity to talk about debug packages in general. Do we enable for all our packages? Are we adding them into extra directly or are we creating a special repository like [debug] ? -- Ionuț
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