[Bug binutils/22136] Support marking "debug" info files with special ET_GNU_DEBUG_* values.

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22136

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi H.J.

> Why not use program property?

I can see a couple of potential objections:

  * Separate debug info files do not (currently) contain any notes.

  * It is harder for a tool to locate and parse the notes section
    than to just examine the e_type field in the ELF header.  Since
    the point of this change is to allow ELF consumers to detect
    non-ELF-conforming separate debug info files, allowing them to do
    so easily would be a good idea.

  * The GNU Property Notes are currently only supported on x86 targets.

Cheers
  Nick

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