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* 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