r188739 - Revert "Revert "Revert "Revert "DebugInfo: Omit debug info for dynamic classes in TUs that do not have the vtable for that class""""

Chandler Carruth chandlerc at google.com
Thu Dec 26 11:37:14 PST 2013


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:09 PM, dblaikie at gmail.com <dblaikie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think this potentially makes sense as a nice and descriptive umbrella
> flag. I like the idea of a best-effort flag that switches the debug info
> emission to compensate for partial compilation with debug info. I suspect
> we'll end up with more than 2 specific features we want to toggle for this
> purpose, and so having an umbrella flag makes a lot of sense to me
>
>
>
> Do you see any value in having the specific flags? I was
> considering/suggesting having the broad flag without the specific ones at
> all. I can't think of any use for the specific ones off-hand. Does someone
> have one/some?
>

Mostly testing, regression finding, and documentation for other developers.
Essentially, I think somewhat "internal" flags to control the details makes
sense even though I wouldn't really advertise them to users.
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