A patch for http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/binutils/2000-04/msg00373.html

[Ian Lance Taylor]

   Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:46:26 +0200
   From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>

   Well, I would expect merged debug sections, close to that what happens with 
   a linker script mentioning the debug sections, eg. a single .debug_info 
   instead of .debug_info, .debug_info1, .debug_info2, etc.

That shouldn't happen unless the linker script explicitly mentions the
debug sections.  If you have .debug_info and .debug_info1 in input
files, you should have .debug_info and .debug_info1 in the output
file.

If .debug_info1 in an input file is getting stored into .debug_info in
the output file, but .debug_info is not mentioned in the linker
script, then something very odd is happening.  Are you certain that
that is what you were seeing?

Ian