[Gambas-devel] I am using ddd to debug - problem

[Benoit Minisini]

On samedi 09 août 2008, Laurent Carlier wrote:
> Le Saturday 09 August 2008 22:25:52 Benoit Minisini, vous avez écrit :
> > On samedi 09 août 2008, Laurent Carlier wrote:
> > > Le Saturday 09 August 2008 09:58:14 Benoit Minisini, vous avez écrit :
> > > > On vendredi 08 août 2008, Kari Laine wrote:
> > > > > Found it !
> > > > >
> > > > > there is somewhere in the makefiles -O3 which replaces -O0. I will
> > > > > try to fix this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Best Regards
> > > > > Kari
> > > >
> > > > Yes. It was a trick to force gcc to use -O3 and not -Os for a
> > > > specific file. And I didn't realize that the --disable-optimization
> > > > flag is not taken into account then.
> > > >
> > > > I must find a way to specify file-specific compilation flags with
> > > > automake. If you have ideas... :-)
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Is it really useful to put only this optimizing option for only one
> > > file ? (iguess it's for gb_table.c).
> > >
> > > ++
> >
> > Yes. It makes the code of this file about 5% faster, and as this is the
> > main interpreter loop, I think it's worth it.
> >
> > In Gambas 3, another source file has its own optimization flags.
> >
> > But I admit this is not the correct solution. Maybe this is a lack of
> > feature in automake...
>
> Add another variable like CORE_OPTIMIZE replaced in automake with -O3 in
> case of optimizing or with AM_CFLAG otherwise.
>
> Perhaps i will take a look tonight after watching TV :-p
>
> ++
>

Well, this topic is covered in the automake manual. Type that in Konqueror:

info:/automake/Per-Object Flags

In a few words, per-object flags is not supported, but there are workarounds 
that need some work.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini