> You may have seen this warning from the memory consumption tester: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-regression/2008-05/msg00041.html > > ... related to the recent identifier GC patch. > > I looked into this a little. My theory is that this is an artifact of > how the tester collects its data. In particular I suspect the tester > was not including the identifier data in its memory stats -- but now, > because identifiers are allocated via the GC, they are included.
This is my understanding too, that is why I did not reply to that mail. SBRK memory didn't increased, so we just moved stuff into GGC from memory we didn't track at all. Honza > > If this theory is in error, let me know and I will investigate some > more. In this case, it would be helpful to have the script that > generates the report. > > Tom
