Re: FYI: Cleanup of debug options

On 05.11.2012 17:15, Michael Meeks wrote:
>         Why do I extensively use that option, though I'm not a packager:
>
>         * I like to run the code the end-user runs - warts and all.
>         * I like to be able to profile accurately without re-building
>           everything (cf. above)
>         * Having no symbols / debug-info is rather unhelpful for both
>           debugging, and profiling though  perhaps it's a reasonable
>           default for size reasons

On 05.11.2012 18:06, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> actually that is platform and even sometime source dependent.
> which makes global level carpet bombing using CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS
> a not necessarily appealing option.

Thank you both for this justfication,
which i've shamelsellsy stolen for the commit message ;-)

On 05.11.2012 18:10, Michael Stahl wrote:
> > Note that what the end user runs is -O2 rather than -Os IIUC.
> yes...and no. both are true actually:
>
> > >[0] ms@bastet:/master > git grep -- "-O2" solenv/gbuild/  | wc -l
> > >18
> > >[0] ms@bastet:/master > git grep -- "-Os" solenv/gbuild/  | wc -l
> > >10
> > >[0] ms@bastet:/master > git grep -- "-O " solenv/gbuild/platform/  | wc -l
> > >2
> so if you want to do profiling you simply have to look up which one your
> particular architecture uses first to get meaningful numbers.
No you shouldn't! That what the build systems are for:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/975/

Regards
David