Sean,

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:30:44 -0500, Quincey Koziol said:
>
>>> thank you! Oh! I am sorry I missed that in ./configure --help. Does it
>>> slow library down or put other overhead? Otherwise, I do not understand
>>> why it is not a default behavior?
>>
>>      Yes, it removes some otherwise valid optimizations that confuse tools
>>like valgrind.
>
> Perhaps an alternative would be to create a valgrind suppression file?

Thank you, this seems to me a good option especially because even when I
specified --enable-using-memchecker, it did not help with HDF5 writing
call. I also like the idea about nightlies with valgrind tests. It is
useful if tests run too long under valgrind.

   Anton
 
>
> When the CMake stuff is working, we can do nightlies that run the tests
> under valgrind (CMake has explicit features for valgrind).  This is
> hugely useful compared to testing with valgrind once in a while, but
> less so if there are known false positives.


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