llvm dev - Mar 2006 - [LLVMdev] PR723: Default To Optimized Build

Developers:

Please visit PR723 http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=723,
read it and cast your vote on whether release 1.7 should default the
configure script to building optimized or whether the status quo (debug
build) should be kept.  It is likely that we now have more active users
than active developers and we should respond to that change of
circumstances with the default build configuration.

Reid.

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, John Criswell wrote:
> One consideration to weigh is that a debug build of LLVM provides users
with
> more diagnostic information to submit with bug reports (since many bugs are
> caught by assertions, which print a readable stack trace).  The tradeoff 
> seems to be faster and smaller LLVM tools (optimized build) vs. better 
> diagnostic information for bug reports (debug build).
>
> If the LLVM developers who regularly fix user bugs depend on that 
> information, we should keep it a debug build by default.  Otherwise, I
think
> an optimized build would be fine.
Another option is to build an optimized build with assertions on.  Do to 
local demand, I added a build option 'make ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 
ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=1' that provides this.

-Chris

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