[m-dev.] using gdb on the compiler

[Fergus Henderson]

On 26-Jul-2005, Ian MacLarty <maclarty at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> I guess my mistake was to use LDFLAGS instead
> of MLFLAGS for -g.  I don't really see why that doesn't work though.

By default, the Mercury linker will pass "-s" to LD to automatically
strip the executable.  You need to explicitly pass the "--no-strip"
or "--c-debug" or "-g" option to ml disable that.

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