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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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In-reply-to: <20050608214956.GA10586@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel
	Jacobowitz on Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:49:56 -0400)
Subject: Re: RFC: Improve support for "debugging" unlinked objects
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:49:56 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> If you compile a file containing both code and initialized data, and load
> the unlinked object (.o) file using GDB, "print Variable" won't work. 

In what situations would such a method (loading an unlinked object
file) be useful?  I don't see it documented anywhere in the manual, so
I'd like to consider saying a few words about when and how to do that.

TIA