https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88147
--- Comment #23 from Martin Liška <marxin at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > > The purpose of the check is impose a limit on the size of the jumps that > occur within the location_t representation, so that if there's a big jump in > line numbers, we start a linemap, where big is "> 1000" within the > location_t value. The idea is to avoid wasting location_t values, without > creating too many linemap instances. Ah, I see, thanks for clarification!