TypeInfo and bloated exes - is MingGW toolchain the answer?

[Bill Baxter]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> By the way, this may be a pertinent link:
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888328

That's only talking about the format for debug symbols so I'm not sure 
how relevant it is.
It also only says you can't *build* objects with COFF debug info, but it 
doesn't say whether MS tool still support *debugging* programs with 
embedded COFF debug info.