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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> 	A plan to fix local variable debug information in GCC
>>
>> 		by Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
>>
>> 			   2007-12-18 draft
> 
> Thank you for writing this.  It makes an enormous difference.
> 
> 
>> == Goals
> 
> I note that you don't say anything about the other big problem with
> debugging optimized code, which is that the debugger jumps around all
> over the place.  That is fine, of course.

I don't think it is fine, we have constant complaints from our
users about this. I think we definitely need an optimization
level that avoids this.