Re: Strange memory leak??

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:47:36 GMT


Hi,

On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:37:13 -0600 (CST), Greg Whalin
<gwhalin@numerix.com> said:

> Experiencing a memory leak of sorts on a system here.
> Setup
> -----
> Linux 2.2.1-ac5

> Porting our code on Linux / egcs 1.1.1, I have faced with the following
> problem. Few object files generated by the compiler abnormally influence
> on work of utilities (nm, objdump, etc.) responsible for understanding
> object files format. The utilities taking the files report either 'File
> truncated' or 'Memory exhausted'. This prevents linking.

This sounds suspiciously like a known problem in 2.2. Does 2.0 work OK?
If so, then 2.2.2 should fix things once it is out.

--Stephen

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