PRB: CV2206 WARNING: Corrupt Debug OMF Detected in Object...

Last reviewed: January 9, 1995
Article ID: Q64438

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Macro Assembler for MS-DOS and OS/2, version 5.1

SYMPTOMS

When loading a Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) 5.1 program into CodeView version 3.0, the following warning is received:

   CV2206 WARNING: Corrupt debug OMF detected in object, discarding
   source line information

CAUSE

The warning is caused because the program was written with full segment declarations and the CODE segment was not declared class

'code'.

RESOLUTION

The problem does not appear when using the simplified segment definitions or when the full segment definitions include class

'code'.

MORE INFORMATION

The following code causes this problem:

Sample Code:

; Assemble options needed: /Zi

stack   SEGMENT stack para 'stack'
        DB      100 dup (?)
stack   ENDS

text    SEGMENT
        ASSUME   cs:text

main    PROC
        RET
main    ENDP

text    ENDS
        END main

Additional reference words: 5.10
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Last reviewed: January 9, 1995
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