[PATCH] retain file symbols in object files even with --strip-local-absolute

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jan,

> I order to permit a debugger to still correctly qualify the local symbol
> names with the source file they originate from. I consider this rather
> useful when you have to debug e.g. production modules for which you
> generally don't have debug information (I don't think gdb can currently
> take advantage of it, but we have a debugger that can). After all, the
> source file names in the ELF symbol table (supposed to be) are entirely
> independent of the debug information (other than in, say, COFF). Jan

Hmm, OK.  I which case I have applied your patch, together with a 
comment explaining why the BSF_FILE symbols are retained.

Cheers
   Nick

gas/ChangeLog
2004-06-21 Jan Beulich  <jbeulich@novell.com>

	* gas/symbols.c: While discarding ordinary local absolute symbols
	when --strip-local-absolute is in effect, retain file symbols.