Re: RFA: document binutils support for separate debug info

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>>  > > From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
>>  > > Date: 25 Jun 2003 12:35:00 -0500
>>  > > 
>>  > > 2003-06-25  Jim Blandy  <jimb@redhat.com>
>>  > > 
>>  > > 	* gdb.texinfo (Separate Debug Files): Update documentation to
>>  > > 	describe GNU Binutils' support for separate debug info files.
>>  > 
>>  > Approved.  Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> Wait a second. I am fixing gdb bugs ATM with that code.
>> I think let's hold the doco until it works completely.
> 
> 
> Yes, Nick just told me that things are in flux, too.  I tried things
> out and what I tried worked (I didn't fake the example!) but I'm happy
> to wait and see how things settle out.
> 
> Do you have the Dejagnu magic to run the entire test suite with
> separate debug info?  I keep wanting to integrate it into
> testsuite/lib/gdb.exp so one can get it just by adding magic to one's
> target_list, but I don't get around to it.

There really needs to be a unit test for this feature.  That way people 
will know it works, even when their system isn't set up to use it.

Andrew