Re: Mainline does not bootstrap for more than a week (Re: Newestgcc memory leak on gdb (heads up, only))

[Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

|> law@redhat.com writes:
|> 
|> |> In message <jey9e1yasz.fsf@sykes.suse.de>, Andreas Schwab writes:
|> |>  > "Donn Terry" <donnte@microsoft.com> writes:
|> |>  > 
|> |>  > |> Just in case someone else is also looking at this....
|> |>  > |> 
|> |>  > |> Sometime between 5/13 and yesterday (5/28) evening (4:30P Pacific), a
|> |>  > |> change was made to
|> |>  > |> either gdb or gcc such that attempting to compile gdb/p-typeprint.c
|> |>  > |> causes a bad memory leak (at least for me).  (After 30 seconds it was at
|> |>  > |> 300M
|> |>  > |> and finally it grows enough to crash.)
|> |>  > 
|> |>  > I'm seeing a similar leak when bootstrapping on ia64 with Ada enabled.
|> |>  > The stage1 compiler is dying while compiling ada/exp_ch11.adb.  The
|> |>  > problem started yesterday, the last working CVS was from Tue May 28
|> |>  > 08:06:25 UTC 2002.
|> |> The regression tester is also coughing.
|> |> 
|> |> I recommend we first get the regression tester back into a known good
|> |> state, then look and see if the "memory leak" problems are still around.
|> 
|> The memory leak is still present.  Has anyone an idea how to fix that?
|> Bootstrap is broken for more than a week now!

Filed as PR bootstrap/6929.

Andreas.

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