On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:34:57PM -0700, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> I've tried to duplicate the problem using both the stock threaded perl 5.10.0
> that ships with Snow Leopard and a custom compiled perl 5.12.2 ("perl -V"
> output below my sig). In both cases, the LockFreeRegistry test passes. It
> also runs clean under Valgrind.
The Valgrind assertion above was inaccurate.
Valgrind for OS X appears to special-case the system Perl (/usr/bin/perl) and
ignore errors. It exits clean, but it also doesn't detect errors. I couldn't
even make Valgrind detect a blatant NULL-pointer deref intentionally inserted
into a test case.
And then I had actually forgotten to run the Valgrind test with the
custom-compiled Perl 5.12.2. Duh. :p When I run it now, it hangs. No
errors, but the process eventually drops to 0 CPU and has to be killed.
So we don't actually have Valgrind data. However, that doesn't change my
recommendation -- I still think we should disable the test except under
LUCY_DEBUG.
Marvin Humphrey
