Re: -fomit-frame-pointer

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:40:07AM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> You can't compile every file like this or you'll screw up signal handling
>> badly, but it seems to work on selected files.  I wonder if it is worth
>> using this option on some files or if the maintenance won't be worth it.
>
>I only tried on a set of files where the frame info shouldn't have
>mattered, but I definitely didn't pay enough attention nor did I have
>enough knowledge of the internals to get it right. I would guess that
>Linux kernel hackers can probably point out the maintainence issues
>and various gotchas to look out for, but without that, I doubt if it's 
>worth the hassle.

I tried it on a few files that should be 100% safe and things seemed to work
but then I got enthusiastic and tried it on a whole bunch more.  I could do
an 'ls' in bash.  It displayed the files and then died.

You're probably right, though.  It would be interesting to benchmark a cygwin
built with and without the option to see if there was a noticeable change
but I'm not going to do that anytime soon.

cgf