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Re: debug evaluator is faster than regular one?


Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe@calvados.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> writes:

> > I don't know.  But sometimes there are issues with calling conventions 
> > (passing structs by value and what-not) and people need to use the native 
> > compiler because they're linking with code that was compiled with the native 
> > compiler.  I think instances like this are rare, but they happen.
> 
> Hmm, does that mean that on some systems a library created with gcc
> can't be linked into an executable created with the native compiler?

This certainly has been true in the past.  The last example of this
that I ran into was in the gcc 1.x days; I don't know if any of gcc's
current ports have this problem.

Carl Witty

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