excessive stab information

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Daniel,

> That's not quite the same thing; this links debug information into the
> executable, then copies it elsewhere.  Ian's describing an approach of
> leaving the debug info in unlinked object files and then referencing it
> from the executable - never including it at all.

Oh - sorry.  That does sound like an interesting optimisation.

> I believe Sun's compiler does this.

I wonder if they will release the source code... :-)

Cheers
   Nick