genattrab memory usage

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Mon Nov 20 11:28:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:00:11PM +0100, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> ... makes native bootstrap impossible under DJGPP - genattrtab consumes
> roughly about 85M memory with i386.md, while we can use only 65M for
> bootstraping.

This is not due to Jan's patch -- at least not the one you indicated.

> Maybe you could suggest how to fix it, e.g. freeing the cache once
> memory allocation starts failing?

The cache contains only one instruction, and, more to the point, is
used >>during compilation<< and not while constructing insn-attrtab.c.



r~


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