"Chris AtLee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 3/28/06, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We've made a lot of improvement with testing over the years.
>> Recently, we've gotten even more serious with the buildbot, Coverity,
>> and coverage (http://coverage.livinglogic.de). However, in order to
>> improve quality even further, we need to do a little more work. This
>> is especially important with the upcoming 2.5. Python 2.5 is the most
>> fundamental set of changes to Python since 2.2. If we're to make this
>> release work, we need to be very careful about it.
>
> This reminds me of something I've been wanting to ask for a while:
> does anybody run python through valgrind on a regular basis? I've
> noticed that valgrind complains a lot about invalid reads in
> PyObject_Free. I know that valgrind can warn about things that turn
> out not to be problems, but would generating a suppresion file and
> running all or part of the test suite through valgrind on the
> buildbots be useful?
Have you read Misc/README.valgrind?
I don't know if anyone runs Python under valgrind regularly though.
Cheers,
mwh
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