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Re: Fix stupid hppa .block implementation
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, amodra at bigpond dot net dot au
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:40:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Fix stupid hppa .block implementation
> Ever size Zack fixed the hppa block1 test, my machine has crawled to
> virtually a halt when running the gas testsuite for hppa-linux. At
> least, until I disabled the test.. By the way my machine was behaving,
> the testcase was chewing up enormous amounts of memory. I decided to
> see why, and discovered that pa_block was allocating a chunk of
> 0x3fffffff bytes, then clearing it, not once, but twice!
I recently posted this test to the parisc-linux list as it consistently
crashes my hppa-linux system. I think this is because it has 0x3fffffff
bytes of memory ;(
Thanks for improving pa_block,
Dave
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J. David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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