Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:55:56 +0200 (METDST)
From: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
To: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: increased size of objcopy, ...
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I have looked again in the binutils and found, that the increasing
of the size of objcopy, objdump and ... are normal, because they
have now much more functionality. One of this is theoreticaly the
very usefull option of objcopy '--debugging'. With this option
it should be possibled to convert a coff file (object or executable)
with normal debugging information to a file with stabs debugging
information. I tried this and it works, but only for some very simple
files. On more complex files, there were a lot of errors, but I have not
the time to search for the bug, because with my patch for gcc, everybody
can produce stabs debugging information.
There are also a lot of other new things, which the utils can do which
results in such an increasement.

Robert