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| author |   Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2023-04-17 01:32:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2023-04-17 01:50:47 +0100 |
| commit | 1221c15b4ad01e2de08f169f1512ab8139391e8e (patch) | |
| tree | a6755144780934105056b322f82e0a37a36a330c /sys-devel | |
| parent | net-im/gajim: Specify slot dependency on gupnp-igd (diff) | |
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sys-devel/gcc: add USE=debug description
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-devel')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml b/sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml index d1c5c038131d..da28d6809a07 100644 --- a/sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml +++ b/sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml @@ -24,6 +24,16 @@ code is therefore compatible with i686 at the earliest. </flag> <flag name="d">Enable support for the D programming language</flag> + <flag name="debug"> + Enables GCC's 'checking' facility via --enable-checking=yes,extra,rtl. + + This adds checks to various compiler passes for integrity and input + validation. This can help catch possible miscompilations early as + well as latent bugs which could become real problems in future, but + at the cost of slower compile times when using GCC. + + Unrelated to backtraces. + </flag> <flag name="default-stack-clash-protection"> Build packages with stack clash protection on by default as a hardening measure. |