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@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ * PE targets no longer make use of the long section names PE extension to the COFF format when generating executable images, by default. The old (slightly non-conformant) behaviour can still be invoked by using the - new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option. + new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option. It is also enabled + automatically in the presence of un-stripped debug information, as GDB + needs to be able to find the debug info sections by their full names. * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries. In the |