On Thursday, 19 July 2007, at 02:51:17 (-0400),
Jeff Johnson wrote:

> Why not -g always? And is -O0 needed/recommended somewhere?

For maximum debugability, I use "-O0 -g3" which prevents optimization
of any kind (as such optimization can, by definition, move things
around and such, invalidating debugging info) and generates
line/symbol info for extra things like macros.

Michael

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