On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:24:02AM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
I noticed on my Fedora 13 box that in the RPM macro %__global_cflags
that -frecord-gcc-switches is missing, which is a nifty compiler
feature that will record the flags passed to gcc in a section in the
object file, thus aiding in the "how in the world was this compiled?"
problem. An example:
[jstanley@hawtness ~]$ gcc -O2 -frecord-gcc-switches -g -o hello hello.c
[jstanley@hawtness ~]$ readelf -p .GCC.command.line hello
String dump of section '.GCC.command.line':
[ 0] hello.c
[ 8] -mtune=generic
[ 17] -g
[ 1a] -O2
[ 1e] -frecord-gcc-switches
What do folks think about adding this as a default? Any reason not to
(other than possibly a few bytes extra in the object files)?
+1
I think would also catch those cases where some gcc flag is found to
break code generation. You reasonably see which binaries were
affected.
Rich.
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