Re: [Denemo-devel] Denemo crash

[Andreas Schneider]

Am 07.02.2017 um 10:33 schrieb Richard Shann:
> [...]
>
> I guess you have to have the flag set for debug symbols for the
> breakpoint to get set (IIRC the flag is -B for gcc).
> 
> ... and reading a later email, you turned on debug symbols and the
> program didn't crash. This *really* shouldn't happen - the actual
> executing code is supposed to be completely unchanged with or without
> debug information included - it's like getting a car with or without a
> user's manual, the car is supposed to be identical. This would be a gcc
> bug, but I would check that you didn't do something else at the same
> time as turning on debug symbols (e.g. change -O2 )

The difference is that I compiled with the additional flag
--enable-debug and that the scripts for building the packages did not
run (which, e.g., strip the binary).

Andreas