excessive stab information

[James Cownie]

> 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.
> 
> I believe Sun's compiler does this.

Sun do it with Stabs (see the .stabs.index section and related
documentation). 

HP do it on HPUX with DWARF (which requires some additional linker magic
and sections to allow you to work out which object file any chunk of any
output section came from).

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