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Re: Two memory management questions in BFD - link hash tables

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:39:39AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:10:54PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > It adds bfd_link_hash_table_free (abfd, hash), and changes to
> > malloc'ing the hashes.  I can absolutely guarantee that it leaks memory
> > on some platforms; any time we notice one, we can fix it.
> > best I can do, since figuring out where these things are allocated is
> > insanely frustrating...
> 
> ldlang.c:open_output

No, I meant the places where all the little structures dangling off of
the hash table get allocated.  At least one platform lazily allocates
another hash table.

> The patch looks OK to me.

It's in, before binutils drifts any further away from it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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