[uml-devel] Re: Valgrind meets UML

[Giovanni Marzot <gmarzot@nortelnetworks.com>]

Thank you for the reply.

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 07:40, Giovanni Marzot wrote:
> 
>>Can anyone confirm if the patches to valgrind mentioned below have found 
>>there way into the release?
> 
> 
> They haven't.  They were mostly slimy hacks to see what needed fixing,
> rather than proper fixes.  The good news is that I've been busily
> incorporating proper fixes and redesigns into Valgrind, so the
> development version should be capable of running uml unpatched soon.

hmmm...Should I wait until this is done or is there something I can try 
in the meantime.

Are the old patches even available anywhere?

If you have something you would like me to try out (even if its grungy) 
I would be happy to give it a whirl.

> 
> 
>>I wonder what "teaching valgrind about the false positives" entails.
> 
> 
> Not everything Valgrind reports is an error.  You can either generate a
> suppression rule to tell V not to report it, or you can use annotations
> in your program to tell V what's really going on.

cool.

-GSM

> 
> 	J
> 





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