linker and debug section question

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Steve Ellcey  wrote:

> This is making some executables (like coremark) 3 times larger than
> they were with the 2.24 ld.  I know I can strip out the debug information
> but I was wondering why the behaviour changed.

 Would you be able to bisect the tree to track down the offending change?  
I think that would help solving the mystery.

  Maciej