Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> writes: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:24:56PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> >> I'm working on a little patch that extends the data produced for the >> little-used (?) -g1 mode. Normally, this produces very little DWARF >> data (basically just function declaration locus, PC range, and basic >> backtrace-enabling data). Compared to normal -g (== -g2) mode, this >> is very small. > > I think what I would like to have is a modus to generate line numbers > (so that objdump -S works nicely) but nothing else. That would be useful > for crash dump analysis etc.
It's not quite that, but the gold linker has a --strip-debug-non-line option which discards all the debugging information except what is needed to map addresses to lines. Ian
