omit-frame-pointer

Thu Mar 4 10:37:00 GMT 2004

Adam Megacz top-posted:
 > 
 > Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
 > > It looks like -fomit-frame-pointer is going to be the default for x86.
 > > libgcj will be built with -fno-omit-frame-pointer for the time being.
 > >
 > > I guess we need to amend our CNI documentation to warn people to
 > > compile their C++ code with -fno-omit-frame-pointer. I'm not sure
 > > where in the CNI docs this should go.
 > 
 > BTW, rth posted a patch back in '99 that cuts DWARF2 debug info down
 > to 20% of its usual size when -fno-omit-frame-pointer is the case.
What happened to it? Why wasn't it committed?
Andrew.