Re: Nonsense in manpage of strip?

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Michael,

> The manpage of strip from binutils-2.14.91 has the following text regarding
> having detached debug information:
>
>   Note - the choice of ".dbg" as an extension for the debug info
>   file is arbitrary.  Also the "--only-keep-debug" step is optional.  
>   You could  instead  do this:
>
>     1.<Link the executable as normal.>
>     2.<Copy "foo" to  "foo.full">
>     3.<Run "strip --strip-debug foo">
>     4.<Run "objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=foo.full foo">
>
> Shouldn't Step 4 not simply be '<Copy "foo.full" to "foo">'?

No, the --add-gnu-debuglink switch actually causes objcopy to insert a 
new section (.gnu.debuglink) into the program it is copying.  This 
section is used by debuggers to locate the stripped out debug 
information when they load the "foo" executable.

Cheers
  Nick