Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is there any option (maybe one not mentioned as having this > side-effect in the manpage?) that will cause GCC to emit the > .debug_frame ELF section without piling on all the other Dwarf info > sections implied by the '-g' command line option? > > I'm working on an application which is large enough to cause ld to > slow down enormously if all debug info is generated. I'd at least like > to have .debug_frame though, to allow debuggers to produce a > backtrace. > > In spirit, I'm looking for something similar to '-funwind-tables', but > which will generate the Dwarf info understood by a debugger (rather > than the runtime exception-handling info that -funwind-tables > targets). If really all you want is a backtrace, the debugger should be able to do that using the unwind tables. I believe that the google branch in GCC's svn repository has a -gmlt option that may do what you want. Ian
