> I've never had -fomit-frame-pointer break anything. I think maybe it's an > extranaeity for Pascal. Or for if you suddenly decide your GNU C is > Pascal on the fly. i.e. I don't get why it's not the default. I'ver never used it, so I've never had it break anything either. My point was that I don't know whether ebp is callee-saved if you use this option, and frankly I don't give a damn.