Stabs Errors Compiling Java Classes

Thu Nov 28 15:52:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Ranjit" == Ranjit Mathew <rmathew@hotmail.com> writes:

Ranjit> 4. description - can be any *16-bit, unsigned value*.
Ranjit> (Used for storing line numbers when using GNU debug
Ranjit> extensions. Hence a limit of 65535 lines for the
Ranjit> source code if stabs debug info is to be used.)
Ok, I think I can explain. In gcj we keep track of both line and
column numbers by packing them in to (I believe) a single 32-bit
value. Perhaps this is not being properly decoded before it is passed
to the debug info generator. That's an area I really know very little
about.
Tom