From:	XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia)
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Subject:	Re: Failed compilation of GCC 2.8.1
Date:	Tue, 11 May 1999 11:43:45 GMT
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El día Tue, 11 May 1999 09:09:56 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> escribió:

>You are hitting the limitation of the COFF object file format: the
>total number of source lines in a program must be less than 65535,
>otherwise the linker cannot write the debug info.  The usual work-
>around is to add `CFLAGS=-O2' to the Make command lines you are
>invoking during the build (you could also set CFLAGS in the
>environment to get the same effect).  This value of CFLAGS prevents
>gcc from putting debug info in the first place, and also makes the
>code smaller and faster due to optimizations.

I read somewhere that with gcc you can debug optimized programs, so I
think -O2 shouldn't strip debug info.

Regards,
GUILLE
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Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (ya sabes :-)

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