[Bug binutils/12658] ld: potential infinite loop and memory leaks when link many object files

[dongsheng.song at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12658

--- Comment #3 from Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song at gmail dot com> 2011-04-11 
13:21:36 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi Dongsheng,
> 
>   Have you tried linking with the --reduce-memory-overheads option specified ?
> 
>   It is entirely possible that there are memory leaks in the linker, but
> without a lot of analysis it is hard to say where they might be.
> 
>   It does sound as though you are producing a really big DLL, so maybe it is
> just a case that you need lots of memory to perform the link.  Have you tried
> using earlier versions of the linker to see if this problem is something that
> has only recently been introduced ?
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick

When I use '-Wl,--no-keep-memory,--reduce-memory-overheads', only reduce about
200MB memory usage.

I'm not very care about the memory usage, I'm more concern the infinite loop
during link because it blocked from generate the final .DLL file.

*) 25 minutes
Cpu(s): 16.2%us,  8.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 75.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.7%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3095296k total,  3073056k used,    22240k free,       32k buffers
Swap:  7811064k total,        0k used,  7811064k free,   321800k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1159 dongshen  20   0 2627m 2.6g  896 R  104 86.7  25:35.69 ld

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