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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [3/4] RFC: add DWARF index support
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Tom> Another idea is to make the user use objcopy to put the new data into
Tom> the objfile.  I am not very fond of this, though.  In my experiments I
Tom> think objcopy had bugs dealing with separate debug files.

For the record, we are addressing this by adding the index to the
objfile before stripping debuginfo.  There's a patch in the elfutils
strip now that recognizes ".gdb_index" as a debug section.

Tom