[Caml-list] Question on -g

[Caml-list] Question on -g

[Alessandro Baretta]

Does -g toggle a debug flag, so that an even number of -g's 
is equivalent to not specifying any, or are are multiple 
occurrences of -g beyond the first one just ignored?

I ask because it has occurred to me to compile with -g being 
emitted sometimes more than once by my makefile, and 
incidentally I was unable to use the debugger. But the 
reason might be some other problem with the setup of the 
development environment.

Alex

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Re: [Caml-list] Question on -g

[Xavier Leroy]

> Does -g toggle a debug flag, so that an even number of -g's 
> is equivalent to not specifying any, or are are multiple 
> occurrences of -g beyond the first one just ignored?

The latter.  -g just sets a reference to "true".

> Does [ocamlc.opt] handle the -g flag?

Yes, just like ocamlc.  Both ocamlc and ocamlc.opt share exactly the
same Caml sources.

> I ask because I am unable to 
> debug my software, and I am using ocamlc.opt as my compiler.

Does switching to ocamlc make any difference?

- Xavier Leroy
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