Hi Scott,
> 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.
Please could you try out the attached patch and let me know if it
generates the warning message appropriately.
Cheers
Nick
PS. I was not sure if it was appropriate for the warning message to
suggest a different debug format, so I put the idea into a comment
instead.
Index: gas/stabs.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gas/stabs.c,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -c -3 -p -w -r1.16 stabs.c
*** gas/stabs.c 3 May 2002 02:25:33 -0000 1.16
--- gas/stabs.c 11 May 2002 09:51:25 -0000
*************** s_stab_generic (what, stab_secname, stab
*** 240,245 ****
--- 240,252 ----
other = longint;
desc = get_absolute_expression ();
+
+ if (desc > 0xffff || desc < 0xffff8000)
+ /* This could happen for example with a source file with a huge
+ number of lines. The only cure is to use a different debug
+ foramt, probably DWARF. */
+ as_warn (_(".stab%c: description field does not fit into 16 bits"), what);
+
if (what == 's' || what == 'n')
{
if (*input_line_pointer != ',')
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