http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46655
--- Comment #14 from Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner at salomon dot at> 2010-12-13 12:46:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > Is the 64K limit really new? Is this really a change in AIX as or did > something else change and start generating files referencing line numbers > larger than 64K? > > I believe the line number field in XCOFF is defined in > /usr/include/linenum.h. > According to that file, in 32 bit mode, line numbers are represented by an > unsigned short, whose maximum value is 65535. In 64 bit mode, line numbers > are > represented by unsigned int. > > I have not seen this error while bootstrapping GCC on AIX. The error looks > correct. What else changed? Update from IBM customer support: Pseudo operation '.line' "works as designed". However, the bounds checking was introduced in "AIX 6.1 TL04 SP07" and similar SP's for other TL's.
