[Interest] building Qt 5.9 on Linux - clang or GCC?

[Sérgio Martins]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 7:55 PM, René J. V.  Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thiago Macieira wrote:
>
>> It doesn't, because the debug information is not loaded in the first place.
>> When using readelf, note how the "A" flag is missing for those sections.
>
> So it has to skip certain, possibly considerable parts of the file while loading
> it, rather than simply doing some efficient operation to copy the whole file into
> memory. That should affect load times somewhat, no?

Damn, how old is your computer ? :)

Jumping back on topic: if you have a super important project, you
probably should compile with both, as each compiler has warnings not
implemented in the other.
Otherwise, just choose one, it won't make much difference.


Regards,
Sergio Martins