While I am personally ambivalent about the default state of -Xg switch, I'd like to point out another use case where it matters: compiling on Windows on slow machine with antivirus installed.
When I tried to persuade my students to switch to Lazarus from Delphi, I've got many complaints about Lazarus being too slow. About a third of these complaints were fixed by either excluding Lazarus directory from AV's monitoring list, or turning -Xg on. -- Alexander S. Klenin -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus