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On 22.2.2009 18:10, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> I have some troubles with kmemcheck, so I give up for now.
> Well, by reading the kmemcheck documentation, it tells that there can be some false
> positives so...

This has nothing to do with kmemcheck.

> Since we are not sure this is a real bug, I'm not sure it would be interesting.

There is no false positive possibility with these checkers, so this is 
pretty much interesting, because it is a bug.