[PATCH v2 1/2] compile: set debug compile: Display GCC driver filename

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:53:46 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> This split is a conscious design decision,
> that has advantages like insulating the debugger from compiler ICEs.

It would be useful if it was optional.  This way it complicates the debugging
a lot.  AFAIK it is not optional due to packaging reasons, cc1 would need to
be -fPIC which has some performance hit.  OTOH that performance hit on x86_64
is say 1% (just my rough guess) but the performance hit of using GCC instead
of Clang is 119%.  So I do not see why the -fPIC is not acceptable for GCC.


> And please don't tell me that LLDB/Clang don't crash.  ;-)

I find it offtopic here but when you ask all software has bugs, for LLDB/clang:
 * clang has not yet crashed for me on Linux during its daily use.
   (gcc did but this is just due to using gcc longer / more extensively.)
 * lldb has not crashed for me on OSX but I did not test it much there.
 * lldb Linux port did crash for me but I do not consider that port finished.


Jan