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Re: Official policy on what build flags to use for the release?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Wed Sep 30 17:57:03 1998
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 17:56:35 -0400
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: tytso@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199809301244.IAA00306@nephthys.grey17.org> (message from Greg
Hudson on Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:44:07 EDT)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
The thing I'm not sure about is:
If someone sends in a bug report that says "This program crashes when
I press the 'a' key," I can build a copy of the program with -g and
try to debug it. So, if the person who originally noticed the bug has
no interest in debugging it, does it make a difference if the program
he was running was built with -g? (Specifically, does a program
generate a more meaningful core dump if it was built with -g?)
Thanks,
Sal.
