Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 11:33:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Elliott Oti <e DOT oti AT stud DOT warande DOT ruu DOT nl>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: -fomit-frame-pointer dangers: FIRE!
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On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Elliott Oti wrote:

> Mark Habersack wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Elliott Oti wrote:
> > 
> > >Compiling with -ffast-math , -fomit-frame-pointer reduces
> >                               ^^^^^speaking of this one. I read that this
> info says that using -fomit-frame-pointer prevents debugging on i386 machines
> (never tried it meself), but I find Mark's question an interesting one.

-fomit-frame-pointer shouldn't do any harm in DJGPP v2.  In v1.x, it 
could crash your program under DPMI, but v2 doesn't have such problems 
anymore.  Using that switch does prevent debugging, but makes programs 
faster.