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Re: Finding out the optimizations used by Octave


From: George
Subject: Re: Finding out the optimizations used by Octave
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:03:14 +0000

On 1/23/10, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 23-Jan-2010, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> | On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, George <address@hidden> wrote:
> |
> | > The -g option generates a debug build, right? Why would Debian
> | > distribute a debug build?
> |
> | Good question. These flags are default, so probably they just didn't
> | change them. I'd suggest you ask the package maintainer.
>
> I would recommend always compiling with debug flags, that way if there
> is a bug that causes Octave to crash you can at least find out where
> the crash occurs, and get some useful information about what was going
> on at the time of the crash.  It only requires some extra disk space.
>
> But in any case, I think the Debian package building rules also strip
> the resulting binaries, so the symbols are gone from Debian packages
> anyway.

Indeed, that's the way it is, I just found out. Thanks.


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