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Re: Separate debug info in gold, ld and objcopy
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:13:50 +0100
>
>> I haven't even looked at gold yet. I know it's ELF-centric, but is that
>> assumption actually embedded in the code, or would adding coff/pe just be a
>> simple matter of defining a new derived class for the output format?
>
> "There is no expectation that gold will support anything other
> than ELF targets."
>
> This is what Ian stated when he added gold to the binutils repo.
Right. It's deeply embedded in the code.
Ian