Separate debug info in gold, ld and objcopy

[David Miller]

From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:13:50 +0100

> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> Vladimir Simonov <sv@sw.ru> writes:
> 
>>> Do you have any plans in this direction?
>> 
>> I don't personally have any plans in this direction at present, but I
>> completely agree that these would be useful features to have.
>> 
>> Ian
> 
>   I haven't even looked at gold yet.  I know it's ELF-centric, but is that
> assumption actually embedded in the code, or would adding coff/pe just be a
> simple matter of defining a new derived class for the output format?

"There is no expectation that gold will support anything other
 than ELF targets."

This is what Ian stated when he added gold to the binutils repo.