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Re: PATCH: Support stabs in libjava test

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:01:37AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:56:27PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Surely that means that libgcj cannot be built with stabs debugging
> > info, at least not on this target.  This is bad, and we perhaps do not
> > want to mark the tests as PASS if this is the case.
> 
> It sounds like a gcc bug. That is gcc shouldn't emit something
> which is beyond the limit of stabs.

The limits of stabs are pretty much impossible to work around.  That's
why we're migrating to DWARF-2.  This appears to be one of the things
which just doesn't work; I imagine it is a limitation in the object
size.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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