Re: [22.1.90]: Point before start of properties

[Stefan Monnier]

>     So 20 years after GCC was a pioneer of the idea that it should be
>     possible to debug optimized code, we are back at printf debugging
>     because GCC developers no longer think it's important enough.

> I am the one who made it possible to debug optimized code.
> And I did it in a very simple way: I deleted the statement that
> turned off -g when -O was enabled.

> It's one thing to let people try to debug optimized code,
> and quite another to go to great lengths to make it easier.
> GCC has never done that.

Debugging optimized code is an open research problem, fundamentally
very difficult.  Basically, it's an unsolvable problem,
i.e. a wrong question.


        Stefan