Re: Why is "-g -O2" enabled by default for gcc/g++?

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Ossama" == Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Assigning values to CFLAGS is _MUCH_ simpler, more straightforward,
>> and flexible, IMO.

Ossama> I think you're right Paul.  I just needed to discuss this
Ossama> stuff so that I could better understand why things are the way
Ossama> they are.

I agree with Paul, but I would like to emphasize that the CVS Autoconf
is able to document these variables:

| /tmp % cat > configure.in
| AC_INIT
| AC_PROG_CC
| /tmp % ~ace/autoconf -m ~ace
| /tmp % ./configure --help | tail -5
|   --infodir=DIR          info documentation [PREFIX/info]
|   --mandir=DIR           man documentation [PREFIX/man]
| 
| Some influent environment variables:
|   CFLAGS      Extra flags for the C compiler

We could add a little sentence stating that the default is somewhere
between -O and -g.

        Akim