Re: Squid 3 HEAD - compiler options

Don't omit the frame pointer in 64 bit mode, it makes walking the stack
for things like profiling callgraphs impossible.

Adrian

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> > Just for the sake of consistency and preference for better
> > troubleshooting and testing, are there any CFLAGS that I should be using
> > during configure and compile of Squid 3HEAD? I was using the same
> > options I was using with 2.6, which were:
> >
> > CFLAGS="-DNUMTHREADS=65 -march=nocona -03 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
> > -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fno-exceptions"
> >
> > I pseudo blindly copied the CFLAGS from what was consistent between two
> > different deployments of squid on two different institutions that I was
> > not a part of. This platform is a Intel Core 2 Duo system running 64bit
> > Fedora 9 or 64bit CentOS 5.1, 4 GB RAM, 250GB SATA storage.
> >
> > I want to make sure I present any testing/troubleshooting information in
> > a manner that is best suited to helping the project members resolve
> > problems.
> >
> > Nick
> >
>
> Well for remote debugging none would be good. In general a vanilla install
> is easier to debug than patched or optimized ones, where the compiler may
> ignore the odd build problem.
>
> That said, Henrik apparently does have a few flags that are good for debug
> but not for production systems.
>
> You should only need to see CFLAGS if you need to build a specially
> efficient or non-standard binary for your systems.
>
> Amos
>

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