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From: José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> When the hash function uses object pointers all free entries eventually become tombstones as they are used at least once, regardless of the size. DenseMap cannot function with zero empty keys, so it double size to get get ridof the tombstones. However DenseMap never shrinks automatically unless it is cleared, so the net result is that certain tables grow infinitely. The solution is to make a fresh copy of the table without tombstones instead of doubling size, by simply calling grow with the current size. --- include/ll...

This series of patches address several issues causing memory usage to grow indefinetely on a long lived process. These are not convenional leaks -- memory would have been freed when the LLVM context or/and JIT engine is destroyed -- but for as long as they aren't the memory is usage effectively ubounded. The issues were found using valgrind with '--show-reachable=yes' option: 1.