Re: 2.2.11: Complicated memory leak...

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:50:07 +0100 (BST)


> Not gcc 2.95 per se. RedHat 6.0's "gcc" softlink comes from the
> egcs-1.1.2-12 RPM; Mandrake 6.0's "gcc" link comes from the

Ok Red Hat is the one I build and test with, and saw no leak. Its very
handy you see the leak on the same compiler

> >Perchance without vmware ?
> The answer is that 2.2.11 under Mandrake works both with and without vmware.

Ok so its not vmware triggering it - good.

> I'm now deciding between trying to compile under different versions
> of gcc, or (following Mike Galbraith's suggestion) using ikd and
> enabling memleak. I'm open to advice regarding the pain/benefit
> ratio of either course.

ikd is probably the short and productive approach

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