From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Heyi Guo <heyi.guo@linaro.org>,
"edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: Why do we use -g option of gcc even for RELEASE build?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 16:49:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <841a2bd0-5dbb-2cc0-74bd-a2489a32a448@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <145387dc-028f-c75f-6df3-cb0ead996eb8@linaro.org>
On 08/11/2017 03:25, Heyi Guo wrote:
> From gcc manual, -g option seems to produce debugging information. In
> tools_def.template, -g is included in GCC_ALL_CC_FLAGS, so it will also
> be enabled for RELEASE build with gcc tool chain. Any special reason to
> do that?
Why *not* actually? Debug information only costs disk space, it is not
part of the firmware image (and even for native Linux binaries it is not
loaded in memory).
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 2:25 Why do we use -g option of gcc even for RELEASE build? Heyi Guo
2017-11-08 14:53 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-11-08 15:32 ` Gao, Liming
2017-11-09 0:44 ` Heyi Guo
2017-11-08 15:49 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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