Re: query re compile/961203-1.c

[Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>]

On Mon, 03 May 1999 23:55:59 -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>
>  In message <19990503201643.W738@rjlhome.sco.com>you write:
>  > > 961203-1.c has to do with the handling of ridiculously large structs.
>  > [ munch ] 
>  > > However, it appears to compile just fine with current CVS and with 1.1.2
>  > > on i586-pc-linux-gnu, which is 32 bit; cc1 completes in 0.04 sec and
>  > 
>  > OpenServer was one of the targets that was crippled by this test.  I
>  > just checked the trunk and it no longer depletes VM so I'm guessing that
>  > things are indeed different.
>  > 
>  > When you say that the code works correctly, you mean that it does
>  > "correctly" take a SIGSEGV when dereferencing the pointer 'p' that is 
>  > set to zero, right?
>Note, when you run the testsuite, it will not actually try to compile
>this test.  It just marks it as failed (expected) and goes to the next test.
>
>If it's being run on via the testsuite, then something is wrong.
>
>As it turns out I believe the compiler may know enough to not blow its
>cookies on this test anymore (due to some unrelated changes).  But I haven't
>tested it.

I removed the .x file in my local tree; the test passed at all
optimization levels.  strace indicates the compiler wants about 100k
of heap for this file.  But my platform is rather vanilla...

zw