Re: Large memory usage by gdb

[Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>]

Alex Lindsay <alexlindsay239@gmail.com> writes:

> and new call-graph. So my question is, is what I'm doing valuable? I

Oh, definitely yes!  Thanks a lot for the investigation.

> haven't done any profiling yet to see how these changes affect my real
> use case where I'm debugging an executable with lots of shared
> libraries. Nevertheless, these leaks do seem to be very real. I know
> that GDB developers are way better programmers than I am, so the fact
> that these leaks haven't been found yet makes me wonder whether they
> matter in real use cases or not. I am using a gdb built from the git
> repository (GNU gdb (GDB) 8.0.50.20170803-git).

leaks are bugs, and we should fix them.  I can find these leaks in
valgrind too,

==21225== 463 (336 direct, 127 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 10,770 of 10,949^M
==21225==    at 0x4C2DB8F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)^M
==21225==    by 0x6C6DA2: bfd_malloc (libbfd.c:193)^M
==21225==    by 0x6C6F4D: bfd_zmalloc (libbfd.c:278)^M
==21225==    by 0x6D252E: elf_x86_64_get_synthetic_symtab (elf64-x86-64.c:6846)^M
==21225==    by 0x4B397A: elf_read_minimal_symbols (elfread.c:1124)^M
==21225==    by 0x4B397A: elf_symfile_read(objfile*, enum_flags<symfile_add_flag>) (elfread.c:1182)^M
==21225==    by 0x63AC94: read_symbols(objfile*, enum_flags<symfile_add_flag>) (symfile.c:861)^M
==21225==    by 0x63A773: syms_from_objfile_1 (symfile.c:1062)

and

==21225== 32 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 6,063 of 10,949^M
==21225==    at 0x4C2DB8F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)^M
==21225==    by 0x4C2FDEF: realloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)^M
==21225==    by 0x76CB31: d_growable_string_resize (cp-demangle.c:3963)^M
==21225==    by 0x76CB31: d_growable_string_init (cp-demangle.c:3942)^M
==21225==    by 0x76CB31: cplus_demangle_print (cp-demangle.c:4308)^M
==21225==    by 0x4C9535: cp_comp_to_string(demangle_component*, int) (cp-name-parser.y:1972)^M
==21225==    by 0x53EF14: cp_canonicalize_string[abi:cxx11](char const*) (cp-support.c:569)^M
==21225==    by 0x561B75: dwarf2_canonicalize_name(char const*, dwarf2_cu*, obstack*) [clone .isra.210] (dwarf2read.c:20159)^M
==21225==    by 0x566B77: read_partial_die (dwarf2read.c:16264)

Can you post your two patches 
https://github.com/lindsayad/gdb/pull/1/files separately to
gdb-patches@sourceware.org?

-- 
Yao (齐尧)