Re: optimization/9859: excessive memory consumption on GTK file

["Gareth Pearce" <tilps at hotmail dot com>]

I'm wondering if 9805 and this both have a common cause.

Gareth
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From: <bangerth at dealii dot org>
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Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: optimization/9859: excessive memory consumption on GTK file


> Old Synopsis: gcc 3.2.2 cannot compile gtk-gnutella 0.91.9 with -O2 option
(was bug 9855)
> New Synopsis: excessive memory consumption on GTK file
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
> State-Changed-By: bangerth
> State-Changed-When: Wed Feb 26 19:51:54 2003
> State-Changed-Why:
>     Confirmed. At one point, memory consumption blows up to
>     beyond 300 MB, at which point my small machine gives up.
>     Without optimization, memory use stays below 20 MB, so I'd
>     say this is a bug.
>
>     3.0, 3.2.x, 3.3 and 3.4 all show this behavior. I don't know
>     whether 2.95 does this, too, since it doesn't grok the
>     preprocessed sources.
>
>     The code is really ugly, one would wish that the GTK people
>     had chosen a decent programming language for their project... :-(
>
>
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&p
r=9859
>