Intel® C++ Compiler XE 13.1 User and Reference Guides
Tells the compiler to generate full debugging information in the object file or a project database (PDB) file.
Windows: General > Debug Information Format
Linux: General > Include Debug Information
OS X: General > Generate Debug Information
All
Linux and OS X: | -g |
Windows: | /Zi /Z7 |
None
OFF |
No debugging information is produced in the object file or in a PDB file. |
Options -g (Linux* OS and OS X*) and /Z7 (Windows* OS) tell the compiler to generate symbolic debugging information in the object file, which increases the size of the object file. The /Zi option (Windows OS) tells the compiler to generate symbolic debugging information in a PDB file.
If you want to name the file, use option /Fd; otherwise, the PDB file used by the compilation step will be named vc90.pdb in Microsoft Visual Studio* 2008, and vc100.pdb in Microsoft Visual Studio* 2010. Note that Microsoft Visual Studio users do not normally need to specify this option because the environment sets it correctly.
The compiler does not support the generation of debugging information in assemblable files. If you specify these options, the resulting object file will contain debugging information, but the assemblable file will not.
These options turn off O2 and make O0 (Linux OS and OS X) or Od (Windows OS) the default unless O2 (or higher) is explicitly specified in the same command line.
On Linux* OS and OS X*, specifying the -g or -O0 option sets the -fno-omit-frame-pointer option. On Linux* OS, the -debug inline-debug-info option will be enabled by default if you compile with optimizations (option -O2 or higher) and debugging is enabled (option -g).
/Zi |
Linux and OS X: None Windows: /debug:full, /debug:all, /debug, or /ZI |