On 06/27/2011 12:58 PM, Peter Teuben wrote:
Recently I noted that the loaded (ld) allocates memory that I've
declared in large static arrays in fortran programs.
I wrote a simple short C program that exhibits the same problem (or
perhaps it's a new feature):


gcc -o ldhog ldhog.c

will (depending how much memory you have, and how big N is) sit there
for quite some time.This version uses a little over 500MB.
In previous versions of ld, this was not a problem, but somehow now it
is. Perhaps this is a bug fixed in Ubuntu 11 ?

I am running this on 10.10.
AFAIK, the array is uninitilized data, and indeed, the size command
shows up with 500+ MB in the .bss section of the executable.
So it's beyond me why ld should allocate that space and do something
with it.


Anybody have an idea what's going on here?




one reply to my post. The compile (link) option

-fuse=gold

appears to be doing the job. I also confirmed that Ubuntu 11.04 still
has the same "issue", thogh a newer version

of binutils.


--
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

On 06/27/2011 01:43 PM, Peter Teuben wrote:


On 06/27/2011 12:58 PM, Peter Teuben wrote:
Recently I noted that the loaded (ld) allocates memory that I've
declared in large static arrays in fortran programs.
I wrote a simple short C program that exhibits the same problem (or
perhaps it's a new feature):


gcc -o ldhog ldhog.c

will (depending how much memory you have, and how big N is) sit there
for quite some time.This version uses a little over 500MB.
In previous versions of ld, this was not a problem, but somehow now
it is. Perhaps this is a bug fixed in Ubuntu 11 ?

I am running this on 10.10.
AFAIK, the array is uninitilized data, and indeed, the size command
shows up with 500+ MB in the .bss section of the executable.
So it's beyond me why ld should allocate that space and do something
with it.


Anybody have an idea what's going on here?




one reply to my post. The compile (link) option

-fuse=gold

appears to be doing the job. I also confirmed that Ubuntu 11.04
still has the same "issue", thogh a newer version

of binutils.





sorry, typo

-fuse-ld=gold





--
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users