Re: Debugger related

Malcolm Wallace <[email protected]> Wed, 11 May 2005 11:13:57 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.haskell.nhc.user
Organization	Dept of Computer Science, University of York
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Arunkumar S Jadhav <[email protected]> writes:

> Now my doubt: Will the debugger option (-ggdb3) cause the compiler
> to emit any i386 instructions that wouldn't have been emitted otherwise.
> In otherwords, does gcc compiler "insert" extra machine (i386 in my case)
> instructions for the purpose of debugging ?

As I understand it, the -g compilation flag just adds extra information
tables to the object file, not extra code.  In particular, the fact
that you can combine the -g option with -O for optimisation strongly
suggests that no extra instructions are emitted.

Regards,
    Malcolm