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Picking a compiler for debuggability, how to port Rust apps to FreeBSD, what the point of Docker is on FreeBSD/Solaris, another EuroBSDcon recap, and network manager control in OpenBSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines Compile once, Debug twice: Picking a compiler for debuggability, part 1 of 3 (https://backtrace.io/blog/compile-once-debug-twice-picking-a-compiler-for-debuggability-1of3/) An interesting look into why when you try to debug a crash, you can often find all of the useful information has been ‘optimized out’ Have you ever had an assert get triggered only to result in a useless core dump with missing variable information or an invalid callstack? Common factors that go into selecting a C or C++ compiler are: availability, correctness, compilation speed and application performance. A factor that is often neglected is debug information quality, which symbolic debuggers use to reconcile application executable state to the source-code form that is familiar to most software engineers. When pr