Re: kernel compiling

Russell King - ARM Linux <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.arm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:29:23PM +0600, Alexei Babich wrote:
> > the standard way to compile the kernel with debug symbols is selecting
> > the corresponding option in the kernel configuration:
> > 
> > Kernel hacking  --->
> >   ...
> >   [*] Kernel debugging
> >   ...
> >   [*] Compile the kernel with debug info
> > 
> This is known, but the the additional debugging information is not enough as compilation is needed without optimization (what the option -O0 is for). In your decision, I see the calls as following:
> ---
> arm-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -Wp,-MD,arch/arm/kernel/.asm-offsets.s.d  -nostdinc -isystem /mnt/data/clfs2/cross-tools/lib/gcc/arm-unknown-linux-gnu/4.3.1/include -Iinclude  -I/tmp/linux/arch/arm/include -include include/linux/autoconf.h -D__KERNEL__ -mlittle-endian -Iarch/arm/mach-pxa/include -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -O2 -marm -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mapcs -mno-sched-prolog -mabi=aapcs-linux -mno-thumb-interwork -D__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__=5 -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -Wa,-mcpu=xscale -msoft-float -Uarm -fno-stack-protector -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fwrapv  -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(asm_offsets)"  -D
 "KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(asm_offsets)"  -fverbose-asm -S -o arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c
> ---
> Please notice -O2 option here.
> 
> So, how the building can be performed without optimization?

You don't want to.  Really, you don't.

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