Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:40:20 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrejs Vanags <andrejs AT crl DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Help! cant compile a large program on gcc
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On Sat, 31 May 1997, Andrejs Vanags wrote:

> GNU C version 2.7.2.1 (80386, BSD syntax) compiled by GNU C version 2.7.2.1.
>  c:/djgpp/bin\as.exe -o c:/djgpp/tmp\ccdaaaaa c:/djgpp/tmp\cccaaaaa
> BFD: c:/djgpp/tmp\ccdaaaaa: .text: reloc overflow: 0x13607 > 0xffff

This is a limitation of COFF file format: the debug info cannot refer
to more than 64K (FFFF in hex) source lines.  You need to remove the
-g switch and add -O2 switch to the gcc command line, then the problem
should go away.