Re: Saving arguments on the stack

[Nigel Stephens <nigel@mips.com>]

Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Knittel, Brian wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to force the compiler to store arguments on the stack with 
>> otherwise optimized code.
>>
>> I found a refernce in the archives (form 2001) for using -0 (no 
>> optimization). Has anyone found another way to do this?
>
>
> If I recall correctly, if you specify -g to enable debugger support,
> the subroutine prologues store the arguments into their stack slots,
> even if a higher level of optimization is otherwise specified.


'Fraid not: the -g option only adds debug info to the object file, it 
shouldn't alter the generated code. Using -O0 will certainly store 
everything on the stack, but it also won't be "with otherwise optimized 
code".


Nigel