From: dan@cgsoftware.com (Daniel Berlin+list.gcc)
To: Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: tail call optimization vs. debugging
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r9d0xby9.fsf@dan.resnet.rochester.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200003242038.VAA10143@halles.ilog.fr>
Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:
> For each optimized tail call, in the debugger, there is a stack
>frame missing.
Given, AFAIK.
> Example:
> A () { B (); }
> B () { C (); }
> C () { D (); ... }
> Here gdb will only display the stack frames of A and D. That is, the tail
> call elimination makes debugging very hard.
Maybe, i don't know yet.
>
> Many GNU programs are compiled with "-O2 -g" by default, which has been
> up to now a good compromise between speed and ease of debugging.
>
Sure.
> May I suggest:
>
> 1. that tail call elimination be disabled/enabled by a particular command
> line option,
Not my call.
>
> 2. that this command line option be "-fomit-frame-pointer", which is the
> other optimization which makes debugging impossible. Since -O2 does
> not imply "-fomit-frame-pointer", "-O2 -g" would continue to produce
> reasonably debuggable code.
Here's where i have a problem.
-fomit-frame-pointer does not make code undebuggable.
In the past it did have trouble, but it's had frame pointerless
debugging for over a year now, i believe.
When is the last time you tried to debug code with
-fomit-frame-pointer on?
--Dan
>
> Bruno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-03-24 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-24 12:39 Bruno Haible
2000-03-24 14:03 ` Daniel Berlin+list.gcc [this message]
2000-03-24 14:24 ` Richard Henderson
2000-03-25 9:17 Geert Bosch
2000-03-25 11:35 ` Richard Henderson
2000-03-25 12:54 ` Martin v. Loewis
2000-03-25 13:08 Geert Bosch
2000-03-25 14:07 ` Richard Henderson
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