Memory leak in 2.12.1

[Jeff Baker]

If it helps refresh anyones memory, it was fixed somewhere between 
2.13.2 and 2.14.

Jeff Baker wrote:
> This is a somewhat obscure condition but I haven't been able to locate a
> 
> patch that addresses this, even though it is fixed in the latest
> versions.
> 
> We build one set of binutils (minus ld and gas, which do not show this 
> problem) that target x86, but also have powerpc, mips, arm and sh 
> enabled.  If you attempt to use any of the secondary targetting (arm, 
> sh, ppc, mips) utils on a static library it will very quickly exhaust 
> your system memory.  It doesn't matter in which order you specify the 
> targets.  If you configure with '--target=powerpc-nto-qnx 
> --enable-targets="mips-nto-qnx sh-nto-qnx i386-nto-qnx arm-nto-qnx"', 
> then powerpc is fine and the rest show this behaviour.
> 
> I was hoping that maybe someone would have an idea where I could look 
> for a fix to this.