2007-09-01  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

	* NEWS: Mention the build-id .debug files verification.

2007-09-01  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (Separate Debug Files): Cosmetic quoting removal.
	New binaries build instructions for the ``build ID'' inclusion.

--- gdb/NEWS	28 Aug 2007 19:57:11 -0000	1.236
+++ gdb/NEWS	1 Sep 2007 11:29:43 -0000
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ Windows and SymbianOS).
 * The GDB remote stub, gdbserver, now supports dynamic link libraries
 (DLLs) on Windows and Windows CE targets.
 
+* GDB now supports a faster verification a .debug file matches its binary
+according to its build-id signature, if the signature present.
+
 * New commands
 
 set remoteflow
--- gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	1 Sep 2007 10:28:25 -0000	1.426
+++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo	1 Sep 2007 11:29:53 -0000
@@ -12033,7 +12033,7 @@ following commands:
 @smallexample
 @kbd{objcopy --only-keep-debug foo foo.debug}
 @kbd{strip -g foo}
-@kbd{objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink="foo.debug" "foo"}
+@kbd{objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=foo.debug foo}
 @end smallexample
 
 @noindent
@@ -12044,6 +12044,11 @@ Drepper's @file{elfutils} package, start
 a version of the @code{strip} command such that the command @kbd{strip foo -f
 foo.debug} has the same functionality as the three commands above.
 
+``Debug ID'' gets embedded into the main executable using @code{ld --build-id}
+or the @value{NGCC} counterpart @code{gcc -Wl,--build-id}.  ``Debug ID''
+support plus compatibility fixes for debug files separation are present in
+@sc{gnu} binary utilities (Binutils) since version 2.17.50.0.18.
+
 Since there are many different ways to compute CRC's for the debug
 link (different polynomials, reversals, byte ordering, etc.), the
 simplest way to describe the CRC used in @code{.gnu_debuglink}