Hi Brian,

On Wed, 1 May 2019, brian m. carlson wrote:

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 08:39:22PM +0200, Alban Gruin wrote:

quoted

-Og also exists to debug[0], even if it’s far less known.  Perhaps it’s
better to check for -g (and its variants[1]) as the user clearly states
their intent to debug the resulting binary, rather than checking for
special cases.

I can't speak for the Windows folks, but Debian frequently builds with
-O2 -g and strips the debugging symbols into a separate package that can
be installed in case of a crash. So -g need not be an indication of
non-production use.

Precisely, Git for Windows imitates this strategy.

Thanks,
Dscho