Warning: .stabs: description field ...

[Eric Pouech]

Uwe Bonnes a écrit :
> Hallo,
> 
> since some days, make in wine/programs/winetest produces:
> gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include   -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith -g -O2 -o winetest.exe.spec.o winetest.exe.spec.c
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852680: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1be' too big, try a different debug format
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852683: Warning: .stabs: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format
> /tmp/ccOKsOhH.s:852686: Warning: .stabn: description field '1a1c7' too big, try a different debug format
> 
> This is on a Suse 9.0 system. Is this a problem with my setup or do others
> observe it too?
it in winetest. we embed USERDATA (for test programs) which are larger 
than what stabs can handle, hence the warning.
It's harmless.
A+