Incremental linking

[Andi Kleen]

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
> In general, I believe that changing gdb to read debugging information
> from the .o files would permit a significant decrease in link time, at
> the cost of an increase in debugging time.  It would be good if
> somebody looked into adding that feature to gdb.

It would allow another interesting feature. I could release stripped binaries
and still run gdb with symbolic information on resulting core dumps sent in by 
just keeping the object files around.

-Andi