Stabs Errors Compiling Java Classes

[Ranjit Mathew]

BTW, this would happen only if you have a recent binutils.
See this message for the precise "patch" that creates these
warnings:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-binutils/2002-q2/msg00245.html

Ranjit.


Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     People who have used GCJ on Windows would be
> familiar with irritating warnings like the following
> on compiling even the simplest of source files:
> ---------------------------- 8< ------------------------
> C:\TEMP/ccbPEigb.s: Assembler messages:
> C:\TEMP/ccbPEigb.s:26: Warning: .stabs: description field '70005' too 
> big, try a
>  different debug format
> C:\TEMP/ccbPEigb.s:64: Warning: .stabs: description field '10001' too 
> big, try a
>  different debug format
> ---------------------------- 8< ------------------------
> 
> For an empty class, I get a single warning. For a class with
> one function or attribute, I get two, for one with
> two functions or attributes, three, and so on.
> 
> These assembler warnings are caused by lines
> in the generated assembler source file like these:
> ---------------------------- 8< ------------------------
> .stabs  "_ZN1TC1Ev:F(0,25)",36,0,65537,__ZN1TC1Ev
> ---------------------------- 8< ------------------------
> 
> The stabs "value" field in the line above is "65537",
> which seemingly should be less than 65536 and causes
> these warnings.
> 
> The "value" field is used by GCC to record
> the address of a symbol within the output assembler file.
> The line is emitted by the dbxout_symbol( ) function in
> "gcc/dbxout.c".
> 
> It seems that the address for almost every symbol
> is being produced outside the allowed range by GCJ!
> 
> My questions are these:
> 
> 1. Has anyone seen these messages on any other platform?
> 
> 2. If not, can someone please shed some insight into the
>    probable cause of such a behaviour?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Sincerely Yours,
> Ranjit.
> 

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