unable to break at large flineno

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:20:46 +0800
> From: Arularasan RAMASAMY <arularasan.ramasamy@st.com>
> 
> Our source files are about 800K lines.
> We are unable to add a breakpoint e.g "break 710000"
> GDB says thet no such line no.

Please post here what GDB prints when invoked like this:

   gdb --version

and also tell which version of what compiler on what OS do you use.

(The answer to your problem might depend on your GDB and your
compiler/linker configurations, so we need to know these details.)