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Re: [PATCH] ld: work around pr17618 testcase failure
>>> On 22.02.17 at 05:08, <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:41:17AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> On Feb 21 2017, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Some change from 2.26.1 to 2.27 causes the ld-x86-64/pr17618 test to
>> > exhaust memory on a 32-bit host.
>>
>> Isn't that a bug that should be fixed?
>
> The testcase is stupidly large
>
> $ size tmpdir/pr17618.o
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 2145386275 0 0 2145386275 7fdfff23 tmpdir/pr17618.o
>
> So we will have an almost 2G input buffer for this object file,
> and another 2G of output buffer. No hope to link that on a 32 bit
> system..
>
> Hmm, this code in elf64-x86-64.c:
>
> /* Get the section contents. */
> if (elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents != NULL)
> contents = elf_section_data (sec)->this_hdr.contents;
> else if (!bfd_malloc_and_get_section (abfd, sec, &contents))
> {
> sec->check_relocs_failed = 1;
> return FALSE;
> }
>
> ought to instead read section contents only when they are needed.
> That would help cut down memory usage early in the linking process,
> and speed up the linker a little.
H.J.,
you did contribute that test (and then excluded it for x32 targets,
although oddly enough only Linux ones) - any thoughts here?
Thanks, Jan