>> Any ideas how to get the symbols from assembly code to make gdb
>> happy?  gcc -g doesn't cut it for some reason and the question
>> nags at me.
> 
> You have to tell it _which_ debugger you're going to use.  Try gcc -ggdb
"ld: cannot open -lg: No such file or directory."
Using gcc -g works fine on C source. Strangely, it's the assembly
source that fails to provide symbols for some reason. I can't recall
where it was mentioned or the exact wording, but there is a note in
the docs about assembly symbols and the order they are in.
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