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<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">Hi Hal,</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">More issues with</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">the</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> build environment:</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">OpenSM used to support two modes of compilation: debug and release</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> (called</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">"</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">free</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">"</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">)</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">T</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">he</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"> main difference is in tradeoff performance vs debugability.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">debug uses:</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">-</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">D_DEBUG_ = control some extra operations and data stored in complib useful for debugging</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">. </FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">one example is CL_ASSERT which is disabled if _</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">DEBUG</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">_ not set</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">-g = include debug information in executables and libs</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">-O0 = prevent optimization</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">release mode uses:</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">-O6 = max optimization for speed</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype"></FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">up</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">I propose to add</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">-</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Palatino Linotype">enable-debug to the configure.in and use it to control the compilation flags.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><B><I></I></B><A NAME="_MailAutoSig"><B><I><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=6 FACE="Monotype Corsiva">Eitan Zahavi</FONT></I></B></A></P>
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