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authorRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2018-01-09 15:31:45 -0500
committerRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2018-01-09 21:47:09 +0000
commitee34617d0d49856c61ba21a5528ab23bccad87f6 (patch)
tree096ba5bbb2d8b1067a538e49acff9a17a36f78d0
parentb6c871a2af7c916f3c862e38816713aa8bf824a0 (diff)
downloadgo-ee34617d0d49856c61ba21a5528ab23bccad87f6.tar.xz
doc/debugging_with_gdb: soften text about disabling optimizations
Don't suggest that it's always necessary to disable optimizations. (The text can be misread that way, even if it's not what was meant.) Change-Id: I9a2dff6a75ce4a3f9210cdf4f5bad6aaaeae9b29 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87018 Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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diff --git a/doc/debugging_with_gdb.html b/doc/debugging_with_gdb.html
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+++ b/doc/debugging_with_gdb.html
@@ -63,10 +63,9 @@ Pass the <code>'-w'</code> flag to the linker to omit the debug information
<p>
The code generated by the <code>gc</code> compiler includes inlining of
function invocations and registerization of variables. These optimizations
-can sometimes make debugging with <code>gdb</code> harder. To disable them
-when debugging, pass the flags <code>-gcflags=all="-N -l"</code> to the
-<a href="/cmd/go"><code>go</code></a> command used to build the code being
-debugged.
+can sometimes make debugging with <code>gdb</code> harder.
+If you find that you need to disable these optimizations,
+build your program using <code>go</code> <code>build</code> <code>-gcflags=all="-N -l"</code>.
</p>
<p>