On 05.11.2012 17:15, Michael Meeks wrote:
        Why do I extensively use that option, though I'm not a packager:

        * I like to run the code the end-user runs - warts and all.
        * I like to be able to profile accurately without re-building
          everything (cf. above)
        * Having no symbols / debug-info is rather unhelpful for both
          debugging, and profiling though  perhaps it's a reasonable
          default for size reasons

On 05.11.2012 18:06, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
actually that is platform and even sometime source dependent.
which makes global level carpet bombing using CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS
a not necessarily appealing option.

Thank you both for this justfication,
which i've shamelsellsy stolen for the commit message ;-)

On 05.11.2012 18:10, Michael Stahl wrote:
Note that what the end user runs is -O2 rather than -Os IIUC.
yes...and no. both are true actually:

>[0] ms@bastet:/master > git grep -- "-O2" solenv/gbuild/  | wc -l
>18
>[0] ms@bastet:/master > git grep -- "-Os" solenv/gbuild/  | wc -l
>10
>[0] ms@bastet:/master > git grep -- "-O " solenv/gbuild/platform/  | wc -l
>2
so if you want to do profiling you simply have to look up which one your
particular architecture uses first to get meaningful numbers.
No you shouldn't! That what the build systems are for:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/975/

Regards
David
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