it's just a helpful wrapper, doing stuff like --malloc-fill=41 and pointing at the suppression file.
-- Evan Stade On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Paweł Hajdan Jr.<[email protected]> wrote: > Seems like a good news, but why should I use this script instead of > "regular" valgrind? I don't know the difference. > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 20:39, Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you don't run valgrind, you can probably ignore this. >> >> tools/valgrind/build-valgrind-for-chromium.sh has been updated. >> >> Used to be, if you had gold as your system linker, it would >> generate a valgrind that couldn't even valgrind /bin/true. >> It's now a bit smarter, and won't build or install a broken valgrind. >> >> It also adds a patch to properly terminate log files on exec >> (which gets rid of an annoying delay when running >> tools/valgrind/chrome_tests.sh on some tests). >> >> Separately, http://wiki.corp.google.com/Main/ChromeBuildbotLinux >> was also updated, and a new valgrind and gold were pushed to >> the main valgrind bots, codf15[678]. >> They were missing the long suppressions patch before, >> so the update should prevent recurrence of one >> of the intermittent valgrind warnings seen today. >> (It already had a suppression, but because the suppresson >> had a line longer than 200 chars, it was ignored.) >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
