Support .gnu_debugdata section #1444
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Several distributions strip the .symtab and .strtab sections from the elf and re-add them in compressed form in the section .gnu_debugdata. This is also called MiniDebugInfo.
This patch adds support for it.
There might be a better way to integrate it. I struggled a lot with lifetimes. In my understanding the selected solution should be safe, but it would be much better to find a way to convince the compiler of it without the use of unsafe.
Please let me know if this is something you can use and what is missing in this patch.