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. _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
