From: Marcin Romaszewicz (marcin++at++asmodean.engr.sgi.com)
Date: 10/01/2001 13:06:42
gcc has some sort of issue with symbols going missing if you don't compile
with the -O flag. We would really love to have proper debug libraries, but
the gcc compiler is unwilling to cooperate. The libraries had to be
compiled -O as well.
-- Marcin
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Yves Strube wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to use the Performer debug libraries in
> /usr/lib/Performer/Debug under Linux?
> If I compile a Performer program I need to use the -O g++ compiler
> switch. Without the switch lots of symbols are not found, no matter if I
> use the debug libraries or the normal ones in /usr/lib/Performer.
> The problem is that the -O switch does optimizations which make
> debugging difficult, e.g. some variables I would like to display do not
> exist in the optimized code.
> So my questions are:
> (1) Is it possible to compile and link a Performer application without
> the -O switch?
> (2) What is the difference between the debug libraries and the normal
> ones?
>
> Thanks for any comments,
> Yves
>
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