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| author | Robb Matzke <matzke@llnl.gov> | 1998-08-19 22:46:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | Robb Matzke <matzke@llnl.gov> | 1998-08-19 22:46:31 (GMT) |
| commit | e455040749ca1d47fb218b9bb35d78247fb9561d (patch) | |
| tree | 2d26f2ae1fea1ff393f00eb36e3f2155dec690b6 /INSTALL | |
| parent | 4322bfe90ab7de7245ff770155867fa5da78147c (diff) | |
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[svn-r606] Debugging can be enabled/disabled at runtime though code is still
conditionally included at compile time. Tracing and debugging share
the same environment variable. All is documented in Debugging.html.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ Step 2. Configure. * This version of HDF5 is normally built with various debugging code enabled. To turn it off add the `--disable-debug' switch - to the configure command. + to the configure command. Even if debugging support is compiled + into the library one must still enable the code at runtime with + the HDF5_DEBUG environment variable (see Debugging.html). * This version of HDF5 is normally built with support for symbolic debugging with dbx or gdb and without compiler optimization @@ -73,10 +75,10 @@ Step 2. Configure. optimizations add `--enable-production' to the configure command. - * This version of HDF5 is normally built with the ability to print + * This version of HDF5 is normally built with the ability to print the names, arguments, and return values of all API functions when they're called. For more information refer to the - doc/html/tracing.html file. To disable tracing support add + Debugging.html file. To disable tracing support add `--disable-trace' to the configure command. * Old versions of gcc (<2.8.0) may experience register allocation |