extracting debug info from a binary

From: mat bike (mat_bike_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: 30 Oct 2003 08:10:18 -0800

Hi ppl,

Could you please help me in extracting the debug info from a binary
for use with gdb? Or generate the debug info apart from the binary it
represents? I'm using GNU tools (ie, gcc). I have already tried a
few methods like:

gdb -batch -nx -mapped -readnow program <-- from gdb manual

and

objdump -j .stabs program program.syms

but they didn't work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks a bunch!

mat

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