omit-frame-pointer

Thu Mar 4 12:18:00 GMT 2004

Ranjit Mathew 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'd expect that: the stack management is more complicated.
Andrew.