Re: Debugging of optimized code

Stefan Monnier <monnier@di.epfl.ch>
Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:07:39 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@di.epfl.ch>
Keywords: debug, optimize
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
References: 95-01-036 95-01-082
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 09:07:39 GMT

  <sam@ccnet.com> wrote:
] I have found that just disabling register caching of variables
] accomplishes most of what you are looking for. The reason is, of
] course, that the "in memory" variables then reflect the real status


I guess the real reason is that basically no optimisations are
possible or useful any more once everything is in memory. The code
will probably end up being slower than the unoptimised version
(especially if the compiler allocates variables in registers even at
the lowest level of optimisation)...




Stefan
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