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Next: <a href="Macros.html#Macros" accesskey="n" rel="next">Macros</a>, Previous: <a href="Data.html#Data" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Data</a>, Up: <a href="index.html#Top" accesskey="u" rel="up">Top</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h2 class="chapter">11 Debugging Optimized Code</h2>
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<a name="index-optimized-code_002c-debugging"></a>
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<a name="index-debugging-optimized-code"></a>
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<p>Almost all compilers support optimization. With optimization
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disabled, the compiler generates assembly code that corresponds
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directly to your source code, in a simplistic way. As the compiler
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applies more powerful optimizations, the generated assembly code
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diverges from your original source code. With help from debugging
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information generated by the compiler, <small>GDB</small> can map from
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the running program back to constructs from your original source.
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<p><small>GDB</small> is more accurate with optimization disabled. If you
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can recompile without optimization, it is easier to follow the
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progress of your program during debugging. But, there are many cases
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where you may need to debug an optimized version.
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<p>When you debug a program compiled with ‘<samp>-g -O</samp>’, remember that the
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optimizer has rearranged your code; the debugger shows you what is
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really there. Do not be too surprised when the execution path does not
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exactly match your source file! An extreme example: if you define a
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variable, but never use it, <small>GDB</small> never sees that
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variable—because the compiler optimizes it out of existence.
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<p>Some things do not work as well with ‘<samp>-g -O</samp>’ as with just
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‘<samp>-g</samp>’, particularly on machines with instruction scheduling. If in
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doubt, recompile with ‘<samp>-g</samp>’ alone, and if this fixes the problem,
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please report it to us as a bug (including a test case!).
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See <a href="Variables.html#Variables">Variables</a>, for more information about debugging optimized code.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inline-Functions.html#Inline-Functions" accesskey="1">Inline Functions</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">How <small>GDB</small> presents inlining
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Tail-Call-Frames.html#Tail-Call-Frames" accesskey="2">Tail Call Frames</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top"><small>GDB</small> analysis of jumps to functions
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