patch was: dwarf2 debug dependent upon GAS?

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> writes:

 >    From: Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com>
 >    Date: 11 Mar 1999 00:02:35 -0800

 >    This is irrelevant to your patch, but on Linux the local symbols do
 >    show up in the symbol table, as I remembered; I always filter nm
 >    output as a result.  This may be a gas thing.  Any gas folk care to
 >    comment?

 > Yes, there is some bad interaction going on, I believe related to
 > debugging references to local symbols in non-standard sections.  The
 > assembler is not converting them into relocs against a section symbol
 > for some reason.  I've never gotten around to looking into it.

I assume that fixing this would dramatically improve link time for DWARF2?

Jason