Extend objdump's --dwarf=follow-links option so that separate debug info files will...

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   more than one are present in a file.  (This usually happens when gcc's
   -gsplit-dwarf option is used).
 
+  In addition objdump's --dwarf=follow-links now also affects its other
+  display options, so that for example, when combined with --syms it will
+  cause the symbol tables in any linked debug info files to also be
+  displayed.  In addition when combined with --disassemble the --dwarf=
+  follow-links option will ensure that any symbol tables in the linked
+  files are read and used when disassembling code in the main file.
+  
 Changes in 2.32:
 
 * The addr2line, c++filt, nm and objdump tools now have a limit on the