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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

  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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