------- Comment #35 from ian at airs dot com 2008-01-18 06:37 ------- The bug should certainly be fixed. But it's unfortunately a lot of work for a small payoff--most people are not in your situation. I think Joseph is correct in lowering the priority. It's pointless for us to describe this bug as release-blocking, when it clearly is not.
The core problem is C99 designated initializers. Those require us to read the entire array into memory before we emit any of it. Otherwise we could generate the wrong code, and there is no way to recover. So the only plausible fix is to optimize the memory representation used for large array initializers. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12245
