From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Compiling GCC 2.7.2.1 with itself
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:36:02 +0100
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To: "Alaric B. Williams" <alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Alaric B. Williams wrote:
> 
> Hokay. That's fixed now. I made it clean, and reran configur go32,
> then make, and it still complains of line number overflow when
> linking... which sounds like another problem altogether. Any ideas?
> 
That's a limitation of the COFF format. Each section in COFF format is
limited
to have a caount of linenumbers, which must fit in a unsigned short,
that maens,
you are allowed to have no more than 0xFFFF (65535) line numbers per
section.

Please do not ask who made this limitation, I don't know, and this
problem
cannot be solved without switching to an other object format.

Robert
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