I've never seen valgrind have problems with memory mapped files. On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Brett Wilson<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Dan Kegel<[email protected]> wrote: >> I suppose you could try running the hunspell test suite itself >> under valgrind. Their README tells how to do it, but >> when I tried, I couldn't get it to work. (Wonder if that >> means they haven't run it, either?) > > Hi Dan, > > Purify has some problems with tracking memory that the OS memory maps, > and it ends up giving uninitialized memory reads for any 0xCCs that > the OS memory maps (since it doesn't see the write). > > Does Valgrind have a similar problem? Most of the data is memory > mapped. It seems unlikely to me given we didn't have this problem > before, but it's worth checking. > > My main concern is: who is working on this? It's OK like this for a > couple of days I guess, but this seems like a potentially serious > problem we don't want to file a bug and "get to it" later. It also > seems like Mohammed will need help, and I'll be out part of next week > (still figuring out the days). If we can't fond somebody to look at > this soon, we should probably back out until there is somebody. > > Brett > > > >
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