Commit ee34617d authored by Russ Cox's avatar Russ Cox

doc/debugging_with_gdb: soften text about disabling optimizations

Don't suggest that it's always necessary to disable optimizations.
(The text can be misread that way, even if it's not what was meant.)

Change-Id: I9a2dff6a75ce4a3f9210cdf4f5bad6aaaeae9b29
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87018
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: 's avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent b6c871a2
......@@ -63,10 +63,9 @@ Pass the <code>'-w'</code> flag to the linker to omit the debug information
<p>
The code generated by the <code>gc</code> compiler includes inlining of
function invocations and registerization of variables. These optimizations
can sometimes make debugging with <code>gdb</code> harder. To disable them
when debugging, pass the flags <code>-gcflags=all="-N -l"</code> to the
<a href="/cmd/go"><code>go</code></a> command used to build the code being
debugged.
can sometimes make debugging with <code>gdb</code> harder.
If you find that you need to disable these optimizations,
build your program using <code>go</code> <code>build</code> <code>-gcflags=all="-N -l"</code>.
</p>
<p>
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