Hmm, GCC are catching up :-)

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Tue Aug 21 06:42:00 GMT 2001


> In article < 3B7DF561.6070609@cygnus.com > you write:
> 
>>See:
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-08/msg00824.html
>>
>>GDB has been persuing this strategy for some time.
> 
> 
> Won't this potentially cause undefined references at -O0? Or is
> the point that GCC prunes dead code even at -O0?

It is that GCC (and the GNU coding standard) are moving away from #ifdef 
spagetti.code - a brave but necessary decision.

This is something GDB, due to multi-arch, has been persuing for some time.

	enjoy,
	Andrew




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