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Re: RFC: strip --strip-nondebug

Nick Clifton writes:
 > Hi Elena,
 > 
 > > Hmm, step through symfile.c:find_separate_debug_file, if the problem
 > > seems to be locating the file.
 > 
 > The problem is find_separate_debug_file() calls get_debug_link_info()
 > which looks for a section called ".gnu_debuglink" which is not present
 > in the stripped executable.
 > 
 > What is this section and how is it supposed to get into the stripped
 > executable ?

The strip utility does it. BTW, I find it a bit silly that a non-gnu
utility decided to use the .gnu_debuglink name. Maybe you should call
it somethign different, and gdb can look for both names?

elena



 > 
 > Cheers
 >         Nick
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