From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty)
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:12:47 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii"
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:

>If you are talking about the "Line number overflow", then it is a
>limitation of COFF debug information, not COFF object format.  COFF is
>used for the object format and also for recording debug info in the
>default DJGPP setup.  You can compile with -gstabs and get COFF object
>file with stabs debug info.  In the future, you will be able to
>compile with -gdwarf2 and get a COFF object file with DWARF2 debug
>info.

Yeah, and I seem to recall that stabs debug info kept causing that
overflow, or something of the sort.


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