Hi On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 2 January 2018 at 17:31, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> 2) I think removing -O2 from --enable-debug should be removed at the >> same time. That pretty much guarantees that nobody will use >> --enable-debug, and optimized builds are decently debuggable nowadays. >> The best would be to detect -Og, and add either -Og or -O1 depending on >> presence. > > Hmm. I use --enable-debug all the time and one of the reasons > I use it is that the optimized build is usually more pain > to debug with...
-Og Optimize debugging experience. -Og enables optimizations that do not interfere with debugging. It should be the optimization level of choice for the standard edit-compile-debug cycle, offering a reasonable level of optimization while maintaining fast compilation and a good debugging experience. That should cover debugging nicely. Tbh, I am quite happy with compiler default to O0 when --enable-debug. Og doesn't give me much different experience. However, it produces false-positive warnings with gcc. Quoting the patch I was about to send: Unfortunately, gcc has many false-positive maybe-uninitialized errors with Og and O1 (f27 gcc 7.2.1 20170915): /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/ipmi/isa_ipmi_kcs.c: In function ‘ipmi_kcs_ioport_read’: /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/ipmi/isa_ipmi_kcs.c:279:12: error: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] return ret; ^~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make: *** [/home/elmarco/src/qemu/rules.mak:66: hw/ipmi/isa_ipmi_kcs.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/ide/ahci.c: In function ‘ahci_populate_sglist’: /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/ide/ahci.c:903:58: error: ‘tbl_entry_size’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] if ((off_idx == -1) || (off_pos < 0) || (off_pos > tbl_entry_size)) { ~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make: *** [/home/elmarco/src/qemu/rules.mak:66: hw/ide/ahci.o] Error 1 /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/display/qxl.c: In function ‘qxl_add_memslot’: /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/display/qxl.c:1397:52: error: ‘pci_start’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] memslot.virt_end = virt_start + (guest_end - pci_start); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~ /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/display/qxl.c:1389:9: error: ‘pci_region’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] qxl_set_guest_bug(d, "%s: pci_region = %d", __func__, pci_region); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors There seems to be a long list of related bugs in upstream GCC, some of them are being fixed very recently: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24639 For now, let's workaround it by using Wno-maybe-uninitialized (gcc-only). -- Marc-André Lureau