Re: Patch - Debug builds without optimization - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Patch - Debug builds without optimization
Date
Msg-id 1322604479.7093.5.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: Patch - Debug builds without optimization  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Patch - Debug builds without optimization
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On tis, 2011-11-29 at 16:32 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have applied the attached patch to help make suggestsions for server
> developers.  I didn't reproduce most of the text because it was already
> listed with the options.  Let me know if you want additional text.

Advising "server developers" to use CFLAGS="-O0 -g", without
qualification, is dangerous, in my mind, because that loses a lot of
compiler checks.  The only reason to use -O0 is when you really need to
debug something in single steps and you can't make sense of it any other
way.





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