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Re: -fcheck-memory-usage, Checker, Purify, and core files.
- To: Mike Simons <msimons at saic1 dot com>
- Subject: Re: -fcheck-memory-usage, Checker, Purify, and core files.
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:48:52 -0700
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199801162341.SAA09526@aura.saic1.com>you write:
> When even a simple program (one malloc) is compiled with this option it
> causes an internal compiler error 11 (SEGV), and dumps a 10 Meg core
> file (this has been reported by at least two people already).
I don't think -fcheck-memory-usage has ever worked, in any tree.
> On August 3rd EGCS branched off. I suspect that more changes where made
> to the GNU baseline related to this option since then, but it hasn't
> been copied over. (At that time I could only speculate... now that
> GGCS 2.8.0 is out I can check for myself).
We do periodic merges from the gcc2 tree, which includes the -fcheck-memory-usage
code. The latest snapshot has everything you'd find in gcc-2.8.
However, I'd still be suprised if -fcheck-memory-usage works.
jeff