RFC: strip --strip-nondebug

[Michael Snyder]

Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
>   I am seeking comments and criticisms on the attached patch.  It adds
>   a new switch to strip:
> 
>     --strip-nondebug
> 
>   This can be used to create an output file which only contains the
>   debug information from an executable.  This would allow stripped
>   binaries to be shipped with separate debug info files, and provided
>   that the debugger supported it, they could still be debugged.
> 
>   The patch is incomplete - it needs a ChangeLog entry as well as
>   modifications to NEWS and binutils.texi to document the new
>   functionality, but I will write all of these once/if the patch is
>   in acceptable state.

How big a reduction in size would you expect, typically?
I'm a little ignorant, but what strippable info is in there
that gdb doesn't need?