clang (both 3.3 and 3.4) OOM crashes on HEAD

[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Dimitry Andric (dim at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> >>> This seems to be same issue as in
> >>> http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20893 for which there is patch
> >>> review going
> >>> on http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140922/236415.html.
> >>> 
> >>> Your test case is reproducible with the trunk of llvm/clang and
> >>> the patch in review resolves it. Other workaround is to disable
> >>> generation of debug information by removing -g flag.
> >> 
> >> Hm, I had assumed this problem was fixed by importing r203311 from
> >> upstream llvm trunk, in head r263313.  But apparently it is not.
> >> 
> >> The upstream patch seems to fix your specific test case, but it is still
> >> in review, so I prefer to wait until it is actually committed, before I
> >> import it.
> > 
> > Which worries me is what we do if it's not reviewd until the release. We
> > can't just tell users to "remove -g flag", can't we?
> 
> I don't expect the review to take very long, but this is how it goes
> with releases.  At some point, the release is cut, some bugs don't get
> fixed, and you will simply have to live with them.
> 
> In any case, it entirely depends on how many ports it affects.  I have
> the impression it is just a few particular ports having this issue?

The bug seem to have been fixed:

http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20893
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=19031

This is unfortunately too late for 10.1, but can we possibly have the
fix backported into HEAD and 10-STABLE?

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