On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:49:23PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > As I'm sure you know, the GNU > > binutils > > Actually binutils only barely supports debuginfo. AFAIK > objcopy is the tool tool that knows anything about them.
I don't know why you say that. ld knows a bit about debugging sections, and how to read .debug_line for errors; objdump knows how to decode debug info, as does readelf; strip knows how to remove it; objcopy how to copy and separate it. > The Linux distributions have debuginfo rpms that work > fine for that. But it does not solve the link time IO problem. FWIW, in the paragraph you were responding to Ian was talking about the Darwin system, not the GNU one. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
