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Article #2083Re: RFE: more than 16-bit line numbers
From: Scott McPeak
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 01:40
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 01:40
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> > I'm working on a project in which some very long (millions of lines) C > > source files get generated. Since GNU 'as' and 'gdb' cannot store more > > than 16 bits of line number information, debugging programs using these > > files is tedious. > Have you tried using -gdwarf-2? I had not, and that does indeed solve the problem. In that case, I might change my RFE to request that 'as' emit a warning when it encodes a stabs n_desc value that does not fit in 16 bits; the warning might suggest -ggdb or -gdwarf-2. Thanks, -Scott
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