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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:23:30 -0400
From: Marcus Martin <mmartin6 AT cfl DOT rr DOT com>
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Subject: .stabs description field is too big, try different format
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I am using cygwin 1.3.12-2 and all of the latest available development 
tools in my installation of cygwin. I have tried the compilation with 
both the 2.95.2 and the 3.1.1 compilers available through the cygwin 
setup.exe application. My computer is a PIII-600 with a win-2000 SP2 
operating system.

My problem us that when compiling with debugging information I get an 
error message that the ".stabs description filed '11b78' too big, try a 
different debug format. The '11b78' field is different for each error, 
and there are many such fields.

I have tried to use stabs, stabs++ and dwarf-2 formats. I have also 
tried to compile with -g1 (which results in reduced debugging 
information). I have searched the mailing lists and the stabs 
documentation for any information on how to address this issue and none 
of the above attempts solved my problem.

The reason I am sending this to the cygwin mailing list and not the gcc 
mailing list is that the same piece of code compiled with the same 
compiler performed flawlessly when I used cygwin version 1.3.10. 
However, this error has been with me since I upgraded.

It is not an option for me to take a step back and use the 1.3.10 
version of cygwin because my apps had a seg fault on exit using the 
1.3.10 version of the cygwin dll, yet the 1.3.12-2 dll does not have 
this problem.

I would appreciate any help or direction in dealing with this issue. I 
am not on the cygwin mailing list so please include me in any replies.

Thanks in advance for help.

Marcus


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