[m-rev.] for review: improve debugging support for il grade.

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Nov 4 05:40:07 AEDT 2003


On 03-Nov-2003, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> 
> Improve the support for debugging in the il grade, by not optimizing
> the generated il code, unless needed for verifiability.
> 
> Using
> 	mmc --make --grade il --debug diff
> now generates code which is relatively easier to debug in an IL
> debugger.

That looks pretty good.  However, there's still one thing that worries me.
If you use `--debug', then won't it think that the grade is `il.tr.debug'?
Isn't that going to cause problems somewhere, e.g. linking files in
the wrong directory?

	$ ./canonical_grade --grade il --debug
	il.tr.debug

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