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

From Bernd Helmle
Subject Re: Patch - Debug builds without optimization
Date
Msg-id 67C356596C1DDB01F9A098BC@apophis.local
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In response to Patch - Debug builds without optimization  (Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>)
Responses Re: Patch - Debug builds without optimization
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--On 16. Juni 2011 14:30:27 +0200 Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu>
wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>  I'm sending following patch which disables optimization when  --enable-debug
> is passed. It was nasty (for me, at least) that debug  build required passing
> of CFLAGS with -O0 to get nice traceable code.
>

-O0 hides bugs in your code (e.g. look at
<http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/9714F5232AB2C4FCFCB392D5@amenophis>
and replies for an example to do it better). Doing this automatically on debug
builds would be a step backwards.

--
Thanks
Bernd


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