Re: NOOPT OVMF build (or otherwise with optimizations disabled)

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

Laszlo:
  Yes. GCC tool chain has no NOOPT setting in tools_def.txt. Could you help submit one bug in Bugzilla? 

Thanks
Liming
> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
> Laszlo Ersek
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 11:41 AM
> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>; edk2-devel@ml01.01.org
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] NOOPT OVMF build (or otherwise with optimizations
> disabled)
> 
> On 09/22/16 05:02, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > Would it be possible to either have a NOOPT build for OVMF added, or
> > have the DEBUG build disable optimizations?   Personally I'd expect
> > debug builds in general to disable optimizations to allow easy
> > source-level debugging, but it seems the decision has been made to keep
> > optimizations enabled for EDK2 and have a NOOPT configuration for
> > debugging?
> 
> Yes, I seem to recall that DEBUG means optimizations enabled, but debug
> code (such as DEBUG(), ASSERT(), DEBUG_CODE(...), ASSERT_EFI_ERROR())
> included. Indeed NOOPT seems to be what edk2 assigns generally to the
> build you'd like.
> 
> A NOOPT build target for OVMF (and more generally for GCC toolchains I
> guess?) should be possible, likely even welcome, I believe. If only
> someone contributed such BaseTools patches. :)
> 
> ('git grep -e NOOPT --and -e GCC -- BaseTools' returns no hits.)
> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo
> 
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