Comment 28 for bug 398403

This is likely caused by the DF merge. There are numerous bugs about this
already and nothing really can be done here.

Btw, my numbers are

rguenther@murzim:/tmp> ~/bin/maxmem2.sh gcc-4.4 -S -o /dev/null -g -fstack-protector -fPIE -Os test_node.i -std=gnu99
total: 744108 kB
rguenther@murzim:/tmp> ~/bin/maxmem2.sh gcc-4.3 -S -o /dev/null -g -fstack-protector -fPIE -Os test_node.i -std=gnu99
total: 719836 kB
rguenther@murzim:/tmp> ~/bin/maxmem2.sh gcc-4.2 -S -o /dev/null -g -fstack-protector -fPIE -Os test_node.i -std=gnu99
total: 459757 kB

Thus not 1.5GB but 750MB vs 450MB.

rguenther@murzim:/tmp> ~/bin/maxmem2.sh gcc-4.4 -S -o /dev/null -fPIE -Os test_node.i -std=gnu99
total: 743380 kB
rguenther@murzim:/tmp> ~/bin/maxmem2.sh gcc-4.4 -S -o /dev/null -Os test_node.i -std=gnu99
total: 630756 kB

the -fPIE effect itself is even less recognizable.