The patch in attachment adds support for parsing stabs that contains negative numbers in octal, two's complement form. I have never experienced the problem with C programs, but GCC generates those kind of numbers for some Ada subtypes: procedure Test_Case is type Base_Fixed_Point_Type is delta 1.0 / 16.0 range (System.Min_Int / 2) * 1.0 / 16.0 .. (System.Max_Int / 2) * 1.0 / 16.0; subtype Fixed_Point_Subtype is Base_Fixed_Point_Type range -50.0 .. 50.0; begin null; end Test_Case; The stabs generated for Fixed_Point_Subtype is: .stabs "test_case__fixed_point_subtype___XF_1_16:t(0,14)=@s64;r(0,12);01777777777777777776340;0000000001440;",128,0,10,0 (01777777777777777776340 is -800 on 64-bits). Tested on an i686-linux host, with stabs+ format, no regressions. Worth submitting an Ada test case, I guess. Comments? OK to apply? -- Jerome