From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP vs Borland C++
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 03:35:34 -0800
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Brennan The Rev. Bas Underwood wrote:
> 
> Also, don't compile with -O or -fomit-frame-pointer if you want a coherent
> stack traceback.

The traceback under gcc is usually 100% reliable even when -O or -O2 is
used.  Now if you start using -O3 and -fomit-frame-pointer, you could
start hosing the debugging info, but one of the features of gcc is that
debugging is still reliable even with optimizations.

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