diff --git a/doc/mjit/mjit.md b/doc/mjit/mjit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4d345a95ae --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/mjit/mjit.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# MJIT + +Here are some tips that might be useful when you work on MJIT: + +## Always run make install + +Always run `make install` before running MJIT. It could easily cause a SEGV if you don't. +MJIT looks for the installed header for security reasons. + +## --mjit-debug vs --mjit-debug=-ggdb3 + +`--mjit-debug=[flags]` allows you to specify arbitrary flags while keeping other compiler flags like `-O3`, +which is useful for profiling benchmarks. + +`--mjit-debug` alone, on the other hand, disables `-O3` and adds debug flags. +If you're debugging MJIT, what you need to use is not `--mjit-debug=-ggdb3` but `--mjit-debug`.