From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] lockfile: introduce alloc_lock_file() to avoid valgrind noise
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:30:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA75E21.1090407@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101002083216.GC29638@burratino>
On 10/02/2010 10:32 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> Add a alloc_lock_file() helper to make such tolerance easier.
> Allocations made through this helper function will not be reported as
> leaks by valgrind even if there is no corresponding free(). The
> ((optimize("-fno-optimize-sibling-calls"))) attribute is needed on
> platforms with GCC to ensure that the stack frame for
> alloc_lock_file() is not replaced by the stack frame for xcalloc().
>
So we're basically increasing runtime to shut up a leakchecking tool
and also making that leakchecking tool falsely not report positives.
Hmm...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-02 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-09 9:48 [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind Ivan Kanis
2010-08-09 19:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-08-09 20:19 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-08-09 20:29 ` Alex Riesen
2010-08-10 3:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10 3:28 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/3] core: Stop leaking ondisk_cache_entrys Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10 3:32 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/3] write-tree: Avoid leak when index refers to an invalid object Jonathan Nieder
2010-08-10 3:33 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/3] read-tree: stop leaking tree objects Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 8:27 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Re: [PATCH] memory leak reported by valgrind Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 8:31 ` [PATCH 1/7] init: plug tiny one-time memory leak Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-03 23:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04 4:34 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 8:32 ` [PATCH 2/7] lockfile: introduce alloc_lock_file() to avoid valgrind noise Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 16:30 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2010-10-02 16:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-06 20:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-06 20:21 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-06 21:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-06 22:17 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 8:35 ` [PATCH 3/7] environment.c: remove unused variable Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 8:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] setup: make sure git dir path is in a permanent buffer Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 9:25 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2010-10-02 8:38 ` [PATCH 5/7] Introduce malloc/strdup/pathdup variants for permanent allocations Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 8:39 ` [PATCH 6/7] environment: use alloc_permanent() for computed git_dir and co Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 8:41 ` [PATCH 7/7] commit-tree: free commit message before exiting Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 18:14 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-02 18:26 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-02 20:12 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-02 20:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04 4:18 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-04 7:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-04 7:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
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