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I’ve seen in many places that people often use the option -fomit-frame-pointer when compiling C / C++ code and I wonder, is the use of that option safe? What is it used for?
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The option is safe but makes debugging harder. Normally, the C compiler outputs code which stores in a conventional register (
ebpon x86) a pointer to the stack frame for the function. Debuggers use that to print out local variable contents and other such information. The-fomit-frame-pointerflag instructs gcc not to bother with that register. In some situations, this can yield a slight performance increase, mostly due to reduced code footprint (that’s better for cache) and to the extra available register (especially on x86 in 32-bit mode, which is notoriously starved on registers).