binutils-multiarch in view of dpkg-cross/README.Debian.gz?

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@013.net.il>]

  On one hand, dpkg-cross/README.Debian.gz says the following:

             for most other binutils, it is convenient to have them
    multi-architectural. Just type size, objdump, or whatever you like,
    without caring about the architecture... But in two cases, this
    luxury isn't possible: 'as' and 'ar' have to built singly for the
    target architecture.

On the other hand, binutils-multiarch installs 

addr2line  ar  gprof  nm  objcopy  objdump  ranlib  readelf  size  strings  strip

  
  Is there a relation between the files that dpkg-cross/README.Debian.gz
mentions and the one that binutils-multiarch install? What about as and ar?

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