Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:03:30 -0500
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Subject: Re: config/mh-djgpp in Cygnus tree
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> I see following in GCC and GDB (and probably others)
> in file config/mh-djgpp:
> 
> # We don't want to use debugging information on DOS.  Unfortunately,
> # this requires that we set CFLAGS.
> # This used to set -fno-omit-frame-pointer.
> CFLAGS=-O2
> 
> It is not clear from this comment why we don't want to use
> debugging info on DOS. Or is this obsolete and we can remove
> it safely? I've haven't fully grokked the way Cygnus tree works,
> but overriding CFLAGS this way looks suspiciously.

The cygnus-specific things are for djgpp 1.0.  It's very old, and
nearly *all* assumptions about djgpp from back then need to be
re-thinked.