Re: [PATCH] newlib: Remove debug flag for --enable-target-optspace

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 3:19 AM Jon Beniston <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephanos,
>
> >As you suggested, the debug information added by `--enable-target-optspace`
> can be stripped, but why add it in the first place if it is not necessary?
>
> Because many people want to be able to debug their code!
>
> >Unless there is a good reason to keep `-g` and `-Os` together in
> `--enable-target-optspace`,
> >I strongly believe `-g` should be removed and moved into a separate
> configuration option.
>
> Currently the default for CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET is "-g -O2".
> --enable-target-optspace Changes this to "-g -Os"

Actually you are wrong.  --enable-target-optspace changes the (normal)
CFLAGS to be "-g -O2 -g -Os".  The "-g" in the config/mt-ospace is
redundant now.
Please see https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-11/msg02062.html as
that changed CFLAGS from being destroyed to be additional.

The reasoning Stephanos is giving of removing the "-g" there is not
correct though.  I am saying the patch is correct but the REASON
behind of why it is correct is NOT.  The "-g" is redudant and can be
removed from config/mt-ospace.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

>
> If -g is to be controlled by a separate option, then it should apply in both
> cases. And this new option should probably be enabled by default to maintain
> existing behaviour (so perhaps add a --disable-target-debug option that
> removes -g)
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
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