Turn off optimization when debugging

This tip submitted by Ashok Kumar on 2005-03-09 00:45:58. It has been viewed 42719 times.
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This is an addendum to the tip titled "Turn on all compiler warnings" that occured on this list some time ago.

Turn off all optimization using -O0 when compiling with gcc or g++. This will help in doing away with any errors that code optimization might introduce.

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