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du now uses less than half as much memory, sometimes

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Message #97 received at 6524-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU>, 6524-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hash: extend module to deal with non-pointer keys
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:08:45 +0200

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 02/07/10 20:17, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Thanks again for the report.
>>> However, while I was able to reproduce it (on Paul's system)
>>> and debug it, it appears to be due to a miscompilation of di-set.o
>>> when using a private copy of gcc-4.5.0.  When I recompiled
>>> that one file with gcc-Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5 and -g -O2
>>> or with 4.5.0 and -g -O, the code works as expected.
>>
>> I used a private gcc 4.5.0 also, and switched to
>> gcc 4.4.1 for debugging where I couldn't reproduce it
>> (gcc 4.5.0 produces debugging info with incompatible
>> line number info for my gdb (6.8.50)).
>
> I reported the code gen bug (i686-specific), and learned that
> it's fixed on the trunk and for the upcoming 4.5.1:
>
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44806

Paul's change was pushed.  Closing.

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