I tried looking online as to what the benefit of gstabs is and the
only thing I saw was that it could produce smaller binary output than
-g with some version of gcc 3.x (or something along those lines).  I'm
assuming that anyone using the SConstruct file with gcc is using gdb
for debugging and it looks to me that using just -g would work fine
for that if not better.  John, does the program compile for you if
using just -g?  If so, my vote is to just get rid of it.

(Admittedly, not the most informed vote though! =) )

steven

On 1/15/07, Victor Lazzarini <Victor.Lazzarini@nuim.ie> wrote:
> yes, I had taken -gstabs out of Sconstruct, but only for OSX. I am not sure
> why it's not there for Linux, as it used to be. I did not touch it.
>
> Victor
>
> At 14:35 15/01/2007, you wrote:
> >I reported a g++ compiler bug which came up when (failing) to compile
> >Csound. The bug shows in the fragment
> >#include <string>
> >
> >class CsoundGlobalSettings {
> >  public:
> >     std::string textEditorProgram;
> >     std::string soundEditorProgram;
> >     std::string helpBrowserProgram;
> >     std::string performanceSettings1_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings2_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings3_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings4_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings5_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings6_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings7_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings8_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings9_Name;
> >     std::string performanceSettings10_Name;
> >     bool    forcePerformanceSettings;
> >     bool    editSoundFileAfterPerformance;
> >     // -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >     CsoundGlobalSettings();
> >     ~CsoundGlobalSettings();
> >};
> >
> >CsoundGlobalSettings::CsoundGlobalSettings()
> >{
> >     textEditorProgram = "xterm -e vim";
> >     soundEditorProgram = "audacity";
> >     helpBrowserProgram =
> >         "firefox /usr/local/share/doc/csound/manual/index.html";
> >     performanceSettings1_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings2_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings3_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings4_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings5_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings6_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings7_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings8_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings9_Name = "";
> >     performanceSettings10_Name = "";
> >     forcePerformanceSettings = false;
> >     editSoundFileAfterPerformance = false;
> >}
> >
> >CsoundGlobalSettings::~CsoundGlobalSettings()
> >{
> >}
> >
> >The compilation options are
> >g++ -o foo.o -c -fexceptions -Wall -g -gstabs -O2 -fPIC foo.cpp
> >
> >I am now being asked
> >"Why would you use -gstabs? (-O2 -fPIC -gstabs is enough to reproduce the
> >problem)"
> >
> >So why would we use -gstabs?  I looked at the man page and it seemed
> >to suggest that one should not unless on BSD systems (does that include
> >OSX?)
> >
> >==John ffitch
> >
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