ridiculous memory consumption in libstdc++ test suite

[Nathan Sidwell]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> FAIL: 21_strings/ctor_copy_dtor.cc (execution test), static
> FAIL: 21_strings/ctor_copy_dtor.cc (execution test), shared
> FAIL: 21_strings/insert.cc (execution test), static
> FAIL: 21_strings/insert.cc (execution test), shared
> FAIL: 22_locale/ctor_copy_dtor.cc (execution test), static
> FAIL: 22_locale/ctor_copy_dtor.cc (execution test), shared
> FAIL: 27_io/ios_members.cc (execution test), static

> 
> All the 21_strings failures are because I had to shoot the test
> process after it chewed up all the RAM on the machine and well into
> swap.  SIZE column in ps was >512MB in all cases.  The machine has
> 256 megs of real RAM and a gigabyte of swap.
I wonder, could this be related to bug 2517 which reports a 
memory leak with string class? I have not verified.

nathan

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