why no gcc3_compiled symbol

[John David Anglin]

> There's a wishlist PR, c/2676, asking for the command-line options to
> be recorded in the object files.  I implemented most of it, but there's
> no useful way of getting the information back out, because nobody ever
> finished writing the BFD/libbfd.a documentation.  So the patch rotted.

HP appears to include file dates and compiler version as well.  For
people seriously involved in software maintenance, this is obviously
very useful information to have.

Dave
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