PATCH: BPs in Makeconfig & Makerules
Greg McGary
greg@mcgary.org
Thu Jun 8 10:12:00 GMT 2000
[ One more try... Ezlm rejected my original post because the "Sender:" was
from a subdomain of the domain with which I am subscribed to the list. ]
Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:
> > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:54:49 -0700
> > From: Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org>
>
> > -CPPFLAGS-.ob = -DBOUNDED_POINTERS $(pic-default)
> > -CFLAGS-.ob = -g -fbounded-pointers
> > +CPPFLAGS-.ob = -fbounded-pointers $(pic-default)
> > +CFLAGS-.ob = -g -O2 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
>
> You need to add a comment saying what relation sibling calls has to
> bounded pointers.
OK.
> If this is just a workaround for a gcc bug, you need to say so, say
> which bug, and say precisely which version(s) are affected so that the
> workaround can be removed when the bug has gone.
Originally it was a workaround for a gcc bug, but after gcc was fixed,
I decided to retain it because it improves the debugging environment
to have a complete stack trace, and after all, BPs are primarily a
debugging tool.
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