[kaffe] Re: porting kaffe to uclinux

[Tony Wyatt]

Hi Dalibor,

On 14/07/03, you wrote:

> The gcc docs say :
> 
>  -fomit-frame-pointer
>               Don't  keep  the  frame  pointer  in a register for 
> functions that don't need one.  This avoids the instructions to save, 
> set up and restore frame
>               pointers; it also makes an extra register available in 
> many functions.  It also makes debugging impossible on most machines.
> 
I might add that not only does it prevent debugging, but it probably prevents
stack-backtrace for exception handling.

tony