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

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

Thanks! Ok for yonghong. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laszlo Ersek [mailto:lersek@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 10:44 AM
> To: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com>; Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>;
> edk2-devel@ml01.01.org
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>; Zhu, Yonghong
> <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [edk2] NOOPT OVMF build (or otherwise with optimizations
> disabled)
> 
> On 09/22/16 06:52, Gao, Liming wrote:
> > Laszlo:
> > Yes. GCC tool chain has no NOOPT setting in tools_def.txt. Could you
> > help submit one bug in Bugzilla?
> 
> I filed <https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129>.
> 
> Since all (open?) BaseTools BZs seem to be assigned to Yonghong at the
> moment, I followed suit here. If that's not okay, please modify the
> Assignee field accordingly.
> 
> Thanks!
> Laszlo
> 
> >> -----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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