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

Hi, I've had complaints from users about the fact that my configure script adds "-g -O2" to CXXFLAGS by default since they want to compile an optimized version of the library without debugging symbols. I know that gcc/g++ can generate debugging symbols for optimized code, but that's not the

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

--- Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've had complaints from users about the fact that my configure script adds "-g -O2" to CXXFLAGS by default since they want to compile an optimized version of the library without debugging symbols. I know that gcc/g++ can generate debugging

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

Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had complaints from users about the fact that my configure script adds "-g -O2" to CXXFLAGS by default since they want to compile an optimized version of the library without debugging symbols. I know that gcc/g++ can generate debugging symbols

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

--- Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -8- itself a hack. What I feel is a hack is the fact that it must be used to disable the "-g -O2" that autoconf adds to the compiler flags. Does this make any sense? So, Ossama, i.e., you want the default to be nothing and if you want to add the

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

Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be worthwhile to add a "--enable-debug" and a "--enable-optimize=level" set of configure script options? A problem with that is that it moves the responsability of keeping track of which compilers accept which options from the user to the macro.

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

%% Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: oo Yes, indeed. I don't reset CXXFLAGS in the Makefile at all. What oo I would like is a way to disable the automatically selected "-g oo -O2" flags by some configure script options, rather than using the oo CXXFLAGS=whatever hack. Note that

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

Hi Assar, On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:49:29AM +0200, Assar Westerlund wrote: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be worthwhile to add a "--enable-debug" and a "--enable-optimize=level" set of configure script options? A problem with that is that it moves the responsability of

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

Hi Paul, On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:05:56PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: %% Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: oo Yes, indeed. I don't reset CXXFLAGS in the Makefile at all. What oo I would like is a way to disable the automatically selected "-g oo -O2" flags by some configure