Showing posts with label compiler options. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compiler options. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2009

xlc Compiler options to be used with debugger

While doing source code debugging, one generally compiles with -g option, and assumes that all compiler optimizations have been turned off. However, as far as the xlc compiler is concerned, this might not necessarily be true. With -g the compiler puts in line-number information and turns off some optimizations, but not all optimizations. To tell the compiler to turn off ALL optimizations, the -qnoopt option should be employed.