Re: Disabling optimization

[Bob Proulx]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> >>>What you're all trying to say is this:
> >>>
> >>>CXXFLAGS="-g -O0 ${CXXFLAGS}"
> >>Nope, this prevents overriding CXXFLAGS from the environment.
> >
> >It does not. I do it all the time.

On HP-UX:

  aCC -O0
  aCC: warning 901: unknown option: `-0': use +help for online documentation. 

I hate it when developers do things like that.  It frequently means I
need to hack the configure script to build it.  (And I do mean the
configure script.  Usually the developer is using a version of
autoconf that I can't replicate.)  Of course in my example case it is
only a warning.  But in general you can't count on that.

> How does the user portably remove/override the -g and -O0 options?  It 
> seems that you are depending on the user's compiler to support a way 
> to subtract from existing options.  You are also expecting that the 
> user's compiler supports -O0 and doesn't simply exit.

Agreed.

Bob