Making CFLAGS=-g1 bigger but more useful

Andi Kleen andi@firstfloor.org
Sat Apr 25 07:34:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:24:56PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> I'm working on a little patch that extends the data produced for the
> little-used (?)  -g1 mode.  Normally, this produces very little DWARF
> data (basically just function declaration locus, PC range, and basic
> backtrace-enabling data).  Compared to normal -g (== -g2) mode, this
> is very small.

I think what I would like to have is a modus to generate line numbers
(so that objdump -S works nicely) but nothing else. That would be useful
for crash dump analysis etc.

-Andi



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