From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, dcoutts@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: binutils/2467: "ar q" / ranlib has large memory use (linear in archive size)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060324011139.GB16236@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060321022303.GA3657@lucon.org>
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:23:03PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> Will this patch break anything?
I don't know the answer to that, but really, it's something that you as
patch submitter should answer. You could gain a reasonable level of
confidence by allocating and scribbling on some memory after you've
freed the objalloc. Test it with a coff an aout target too.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-24 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-21 6:03 H. J. Lu
2006-03-24 4:11 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2006-03-24 7:27 ` H. J. Lu
2006-04-07 1:08 ` H. J. Lu
2006-04-25 17:22 ` Nick Clifton
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