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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:07:03 +0100
From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
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To: Buddy Lucas <buddy.lucas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Gnome-2.8 stoped working on kernel-2.6.9-rc4-mm1
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:08:24 +0200, Buddy Lucas <buddy.lucas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Compiling with -fomit-frame-pointer removes information from the
> binary that could be used for debugging. So the bugbuddy information
> you provided was not optimal, because it lacked the crucial stuff. ;-)
> The flag does not cause any problems, it is routinely used for
> compiling stuff  that doesn't need debugging.

It's worth adding that the reason why programs are often built with
-fomit-frame-pointer is for overhead reduction on stack frames, to
make the binary slightly smaller and run maybe a bit faster so it's
become quite popular. This discussion is beyond the scope of the
original mail, but worthy of noting - and it ends up going down the
path of differences between architectures, so let's just leave it at
this clarification.

Jon.
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