Your message dated Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:42:06 -0500
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has caused the Debian Bug report #296156,
regarding valgrind: goes nuts when confronted with absurdly huge stack frames
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Package: valgrind
Severity: important

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cat foo.c
int main(void)
{
  int foo = 0;
  char window[0x400000];
  return 0;
}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ gcc -g -o foo foo.c
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ valgrind foo
==13572== Memcheck, a memory error detector for x86-linux.
==13572== Copyright (C) 2002-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==13572== Using valgrind-2.2.0, a program supervision framework for x86-linux.
==13572== Copyright (C) 2000-2004, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==13572== For more details, rerun with: -v
==13572== 
==13572== Invalid write of size 4
==13572==    at 0x8048367: main (foo.c:3)
==13572==  Address 0x52BFE6BC is on thread 1's stack
==13572== 
==13572== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 11 from 1)
==13572== malloc/free: in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==13572== malloc/free: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated.
==13572== For a detailed leak analysis,  rerun with: --leak-check=yes
==13572== For counts of detected errors, rerun with: -v

It's objecting to the line "int foo = 0". This is clearly broken. It
will object to just about anything involving stack variables in a
function with so much data on the stack, which is less than useful.

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Valgrind now has --max-stackframe to handle big data on stacks

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