x86_64: memory issues with gnujava in latest binutils

Andreas Radke a.radke@arcor.de
Wed Jul 11 00:22:00 GMT 2007


Am Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:29:58 +0200
schrieb Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de>:

> I'm maintaining the ArchLinux x86_64 port and we have problems since
> we try to upgrade from 2.17 binutils to 2.17.50.0.17 or
> cvs-snapshots. we also try to patch gcc  to enable the gnu.hashing.
> 
> Everything works fine until we use anything gnujava (from 4.3 trunk)
> related: opening the OpenOffice.org wizards or just compiling
> OpenOffice immediately eats up all memory. this doesn't happen on
> i686.
> 
> Is this a know issue or how can i help to find out the reason for it?
> 
> Andreas Radke


i could track down when this memory issue was introduced: last working
version is 2.17.50.0.6. from version .7 on the memory runs out.

any idea what was changed in that release and what the reason could be?

guess i should file a bugreport.

Andreas



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