Warning: .stabs: description field ...

[Uwe Bonnes]

Hallo,

since some days, make in wine/programs/winetest produces:
gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include   -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith -g -O2 -o winetest.exe.spec.o winetest.exe.spec.c
/tmp/ccOKsOhH.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852680: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1be' too big, try a different debug format
/tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852683: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format
/tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852686: Warning: .stabn: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format

This is on a Suse 9.0 system. Is this a problem with my setup or do others
observe it too?

Bye

[Marcus Meissner]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:08:40PM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> since some days, make in wine/programs/winetest produces:
> gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include   -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith -g -O2 -o winetest.exe.spec.o winetest.exe.spec.c
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852680: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1be' too big, try a different debug format
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852683: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852686: Warning: .stabn: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format
>
> This is on a Suse 9.0 system. Is this a problem with my setup or do others
> observe it too?

I observe it too.

I think winetest is just getting too large for a .stabs debuggable file.

The error appears harmless though.

Ciao, Marcus

[Eric Pouech]

Uwe Bonnes a écrit :
> Hallo,
>
> since some days, make in wine/programs/winetest produces:
> gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include   -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith -g -O2 -o winetest.exe.spec.o winetest.exe.spec.c
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852680: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1be' too big, try a different debug format
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852683: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852686: Warning: .stabn: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format
>
> This is on a Suse 9.0 system. Is this a problem with my setup or do others
> observe it too?

it in winetest. we embed USERDATA (for test programs) which are larger 
than what stabs can handle, hence the warning.
It's harmless.
A+