From:	"deckerben" <deckerben AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: "line number overflow"
Date:	Sat, 1 Jun 2002 20:23:34 +0200
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> > warning: .text: line number overflow: 0x194f9 > 0xffff


> In general, you can disregard this warning.  It means that the number
> of source lines for which the linker needs to put debug info into the
> executable is more than the COFF debug info format allows (whcih is
> 64K lines total).  What the linker does is omit the debug info for
> the lines beyond the first 64K.
>
> This only affects debugging, it has no effect on the produced code.
>
> To be able to debug such large programs, compile with -gstabs+ or -ggdb3
> instead of a mere -g.  This requests stabs or DWARF2 debug info
> format, which isn't limited to 64K lines in a program.


Thanks Eli. That was the answer.

Ben

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