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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mk: add support for gdb debug info generation
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:56:23 +0200
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On 2015-06-22 09:44, Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio wrote:
> On 19/06/2015 22:29, Cyril Chemparathy wrote:
>> From: Cyril Chemparathy <cchemparathy@tilera.com>
>>
>> It is often useful to build with debug enabled, we add a config
>> (CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_DEBUG) to do so.
>>
>>   +ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_TOOLCHAIN_DEBUG),y)
>> +TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS += -g -ggdb
>> +TOOLCHAIN_LDFLAGS += -g -ggdb
>> +endif

> I don't think you need to modify the makefiles and introduce a new
> compile time option for this.
> The same result can be easily achieved by setting EXTRA_CFLAGS in the
> command line. ie:
>     $ make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc EXTRA_CFLAGS='-g -ggdb'

Why isn't -g standard though? The binaries should/will anyhow be
stripped when used for production - but debugging information should be
useful when analysing crashes.

// Simon