This bug has been fixed in CVS; I am reporting it here to describe the problem in GCC 3.2.2. Hundreds of the libjava tests fail with sparc-sun-solaris2.8 when gas (2.13.1) is used; these failures don't show up when the native assembler is used (and might not show up for older gas versions, though I can't be sure). Release: gcc 3.2.2 Environment: sparc-sun-solaris2.8 with gas version 2.13.1 How-To-Repeat: Do a bootstrap on sparc-sun-solaris2.8, configured to use gas version 2.13.1 (probably other similar gas versions will show the problem as well). Run the tests with "make check" and observe hundreds of failures. The log shows messages like the following coming from gas, many times: Warning: .stabs: description field '10001' too big, try a different debug format
Fix: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-02/msg00808.html
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-Why: Fixed by patch referenced in "Fix" section below.