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At 1:14 AM +0300 10/21/04, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>
>OK, I've just checked objcopy manpage and found that there is
>actually a better way which combines best properties of both
>approach. In modern GNU toolchain it is possible to split
>executable and debugging info into two separate files, but put
>a reference into executable, so that you don't have to worry
>about how to load debugging symbols:

This sounds like a very attractive possibility.

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