Re: Warning when using separate debug info file

[LRN <lrn1986 at gmail dot com>]

On 17.04.2019 20:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I tried debugging a program on MS-Windows after moving the debug info
> to a separate file
> When I then invoke GDB, it does find the symbols, but emits a warning:
> 
>   Reading symbols from ./e.exe...Reading symbols from d:\foo\bar\e.debug...
>   warning: section .gnu_debuglink not found in d:\foo\bar\e.debug
> 

I'm too lazy to explain this right now. Here's a Python program (attached) that
creates separate debug info files that do not produce this warning.

I've reported it to the bugtracker, but no one seems to be interested in fixing
this, and i have no idea why this happens (although i do have a hypothesis).

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