From ed1653a7a6e4a758fa05f05f7e5d5b3257b84a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Clifton Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:14:10 +0000 Subject: Add --only-keep-debug switch --- binutils/NEWS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'binutils/NEWS') diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index 1f869b473d3..4338946f10d 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ -*- text -*- +* objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing + those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug. The idea is that + this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create + a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the + debugging info. + * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink= to insert a .gnu_debuglink section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug information for the file to be held in a seperate file. -- cgit v1.2.1