Separate debug info in gold, ld and objcopy

[Dave Korn]

David Miller wrote:
> 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.

  Ohh, yeah, now you quote it at me I do remember that.  Doh.

    cheers,
      DaveK