omit-frame-pointer

Thu Mar 4 12:12:00 GMT 2004

This still works, and I have verified that it still results in a huge
reduction in .eh_frame.
 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1997-10/msg00569.html
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Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@hotmail.com> writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Adam Megacz top-posted:
> [...]
>> > 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?
>> Whether it was committed or not, even now the DW2
> information generated with -fomit-frame-pointer is
> bigger than with -fno-omit-frame-pointer.
>> You can verify it by looking at the generated
> assembler code.
>> Ranjit.
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