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Date:	Tue, 02 Jan 2001 23:56:57 +0100
From:	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: config/mh-djgpp in Cygnus tree
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > I don't agree. This is just a cleanup.
> 
> It may *look* like one, but it may just as well be an essential piece to
> the DJGPP port of the program that just didn't get commented
> understandibly. IIRC, you can not build GCC with -g active.  At least at
> the time of DJGPP 1.x, when DJ says this change was conceived, that was
> the case. You would hit the hard limit of 64K symbols in a COFF object
> file, otherwise. A debuggable GCC needs '-gstabs', instead.

GCC gets built with -g anyway nowadays. And yes, this is undebuggable.
It seems that CFLAGS setting in mh-djgpp gets overriden anyway. That's
why IMO it's a cleanup.

Laurynas

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