Why does the "gcc2_compiled" symbol depend on -g?

[Eric Christopher]

"H . J . Lu" wrote:
> 
> I noticed that under Linux,
> 
> # gcc -c m.c -g
> # nm m.o
> 00000000 T __start
> # gcc  -c m.c
> # nm m.o
> 00000000 T __start
> 00000000 t gcc2_compiled.
> 
> Is that intentional?

I believe it was originally put in so that it could pass information to
gdb - or clue gdb in that the binary was compiled by gcc.

-eric

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