RFC --enable-debugging

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 07:41:19PM -0600, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> ...builds libstdc++.so twice. Once as-is, once for debugging. Debugging
> options can include CXXFLAGS="-g -O0",

Maybe even -g3.

> perhaps a change to use malloc-alloc allocators,

Hmmmm.  That could be good.

> and perhaps --enable-concept-checks.

This won't help.  The concept checks only do things during compilation.

> Installed in $prefix/lib/debug/

Works for me.


Why don't we just rework the existing --enable-debug switch for this purpose?


Phil

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