Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/20/2005 15:51:59
On Jun 20, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Greywolf wrote:

> Wow.  I mean...wow.
>
> I just really cannot believe that you just said that at all, let alone
> like that.
>
> There are a few people who are less than proficient with hand- 
> disassembly,
> hence their need to use a _-=>DEBUGGER<=-_, which is supposed to  
> aid in
> this task.

Even the GCC manual pages say that optimization might make debugging  
more difficult.  If you are having trouble debugging a buggy  
application, the first step is almost always "compile with -O0".

-- thorpej