On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 01:47:41PM +0100, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 20:10 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote: > > So, is there an up-to-date Valgrind suppression file somewhere? Or is > > GNOME.supp the most up-to-date? > > The one I’ve been using is here: > > https://github.com/pwithnall/walbottle/blob/master/libwalbottle/tests/w > albottle.supp > > It covers most of the GLib and GIO functionality which I’ve been using > recently. Enough to get the Walbottle tests Valgrind-clean, at least. > > I do not claim it’s anything like perfect though.
I already get much better results with walbottle.supp, at least for the tests depending only on GLib/GObject. Thanks a lot! > This has been discussed before, and I failed to do anything about it: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666114#c28 > > Installing a suppression file with GLib won’t fix everything, because > Valgrind only has one default suppression file, which we can’t modify > or add to. So even if GLib installed a suppression file, you’d have to > pass it as a --suppressions argument to Valgrind manually. However, > that is better than having to write your own suppressions file //and// > pass it in. > > See here for information about default.supp: > > https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Valgrind_Suppression_File_Howto#Valgrind_and > _suppression_files > > Valgrind has a couple of bugs open about improving its support for > default suppressions. None of them have seen activity recently: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93376 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160905 (basically a duplicate) And thanks for the links. I also think that it would be useful to have a suppression file upstream, even if it is incomplete. -- Sébastien _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
