Android: improve native debuggability

build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # IMPORTANT:
 # Please don't directly include this file if you are building via gyp_chromium,
 # since gyp_chromium is automatically forcing its inclusion.
 {
   # Variables expected to be overriden on the GYP command line (-D) or by
   # ~/.gyp/include.gypi.
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               'debug_optimize%': '0',
             },
             'defines': [
               '_DEBUG',
             ],
             'cflags': [
               '-O>(debug_optimize)',
               '-g',
             ],
             'conditions' : [
+              ['OS=="android"', {
+                # Only link with needed input sections. This is to avoid getting
+                # undefined reference to __cxa_bad_typeid in the CDU library.
+                'ldflags': [
+                  '-Wl,--gc-sections',
+                ],
+              }],
               ['OS=="android" and android_full_debug==0', {
                 # Some configurations are copied from Release_Base to reduce
                 # the binary size.
                 'variables': {
                   'debug_optimize%': 's',
                 },
                 'cflags': [
                   '-fomit-frame-pointer',
                   '-fdata-sections',
                   '-ffunction-sections',
                 ],
                 'ldflags': [
                   '-Wl,-O1',
                   '-Wl,--as-needed',
-                  '-Wl,--gc-sections',
                 ],
               }],
               ['OS=="linux" and target_arch=="ia32"', {
                 'ldflags': [
                   '-Wl,--no-as-needed',
                 ],
               }],
             ],
           },
           'Release_Base': {
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     # settings in target dicts.  SYMROOT is a special case, because many other
     # Xcode variables depend on it, including variables such as
     # PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR.  When a source group corresponding to something
     # like PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR is added to a project, in order for the
     # files to appear (when present) in the UI as actual files and not red
     # red "missing file" proxies, the correct path to PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR,
     # and therefore SYMROOT, needs to be set at the project level.
     'SYMROOT': '<(DEPTH)/xcodebuild',
   },
 }