On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:08:10AM +0200, Marco Roeland wrote:
> On Tuesday May 2nd 2006 at 00:34 Ulf Möller wrote:
> 
> > Not much. If it helps with debugging, I'm in favor of removing them. 
> > (However the last time I checked, valgrind reported thousands of bogus 
> > error messages. Has that situation gotten better?)
> 
> I recently compiled vanilla OpenSSL 0.9.8a with -DPURIFY=1 and on Debian
> GNU/Linux 'sid' with valgrind version 3.1.1 was able to debug some
> application using both TLS/SSL as S/MIME without any warning or error
> about the OpenSSL code. Without -DPURIFY you're indeed flooded with
> warnings.
> 
> So yes I think not using the uninitialized memory (it's only a single
> line, the other occurrence is already commented out) helps valgrind.

Afaik, both are actually being used, the one without the #ifndef
PURIFY just doesn't seem to be used that much.


Kurt

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