Steve Holden writes: > I agree - trying to step through -O2 optimized code isn't going to > help debug your code, it's going to help you debug the > optimizer. That's a very rare use case.
Not really. I don't have a lot of practice in debugging at that level, so take it with a grain of salt, but what I've found with XEmacs code is that debugging at -O0 is less often helpful than debugging at -O2. Quite often a naive compilation strategy is used which basically turns those C statements into macros for the underlying assembler, and the code works the way the author thinks it should. But his assumptions are invalid, and when optimized it fails. So I guess you can call that "debugging the optimizer" if you like.... _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
