debugging enabled? (was Re: KGDB command line options not working for kernel 2.6.32)

[Mulyadi Santosa]

>I have one question in this context. Should we disable optimization when >building the kernel when we wish to enable kgdb or should we leave it intact.

Whenever possible, yes...disable optimization.... -O option and -g in
gcc don't play nicely together according to my experience. The DWARF
info will be somewhat fuzzed or even "corrupted"....so it might point
to wrong source line etc

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