Re: optimization/9859: excessive memory consumption on GTK file

["Gareth Pearce" <tilps@hotmail.com>]

The following reply was made to PR optimization/9859; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps@hotmail.com>
To: <bangerth@dealii.org>,
	<gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>,
	<gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org>,
	<nobody@gcc.gnu.org>,
	<suzhe@turbolinux.com.cn>,
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Subject: Re: optimization/9859: excessive memory consumption on GTK file
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:22:23 +1100

 I'm wondering if 9805 and this both have a common cause.
 
 Gareth
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 Subject: Re: optimization/9859: excessive memory consumption on GTK file
 
 
 > Old Synopsis: gcc 3.2.2 cannot compile gtk-gnutella 0.91.9 with -O2 option
 (was bug 9855)
 > New Synopsis: excessive memory consumption on GTK file
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: bangerth
 > State-Changed-When: Wed Feb 26 19:51:54 2003
 > State-Changed-Why:
 >     Confirmed. At one point, memory consumption blows up to
 >     beyond 300 MB, at which point my small machine gives up.
 >     Without optimization, memory use stays below 20 MB, so I'd
 >     say this is a bug.
 >
 >     3.0, 3.2.x, 3.3 and 3.4 all show this behavior. I don't know
 >     whether 2.95 does this, too, since it doesn't grok the
 >     preprocessed sources.
 >
 >     The code is really ugly, one would wish that the GTK people
 >     had chosen a decent programming language for their project... :-(
 >
 >
 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&p
 r=9859
 >