> 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.
Sorry I mean separate debuginfo, as Ian was refering too. I actually had a patch once to hack it into objdump for -S and also into addr2line but it was somewhat ugly and still had some problems and I didn't submit it. -Andi