Is there any option (maybe one not mentioned as having this side-effect in the manpage?) that will cause GCC to emit the .debug_frame ELF section without piling on all the other Dwarf info sections implied by the '-g' command line option? I'm working on an application which is large enough to cause ld to slow down enormously if all debug info is generated. I'd at least like to have .debug_frame though, to allow debuggers to produce a backtrace. In spirit, I'm looking for something similar to '-funwind-tables', but which will generate the Dwarf info understood by a debugger (rather than the runtime exception-handling info that -funwind-tables targets).