Re: Valgrind and Python

2007-11-10 Thread Esa A E Peuha
Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did you use the suppression file? No, I didn't, because I was testing Valgrind on binaries that happened to be installed on a Linux machine, and had no reason to treat Python specifically. I see that README.valgrind explains why Python reads memo

Re: Valgrind and Python

2007-11-09 Thread Terry Reedy
"Esa A E Peuha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Running Python 2.5.1 under Valgrind is interesting; What platform and compiler and compiler settings? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Valgrind and Python

2007-11-09 Thread Terry Reedy
| | does that mean that python's interpretor is a memory beast? No. The developers have occasionally run Valgrind on Python (or seen the results of so doing). I believe they have determined that it gives spurious messages due to some particular features of its coding style or standards. See

Re: Valgrind and Python

2007-11-09 Thread annonymous
on 11/10/2007 08:38 AM Esa A E Peuha wrote : > Running Python 2.5.1 under Valgrind is interesting; just starting it and > then pressing Ctrl-D produces this: > > ==27082== ERROR SUMMARY: 713 errors from 56 contexts (suppressed: 10 from 1) > ==27082== malloc/free: in use at exit: 1,243,153 bytes in

Re: Valgrind and Python

2007-11-09 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On 10 Nov 2007 02:38:57 +0200, Esa A E Peuha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Running Python 2.5.1 under Valgrind is interesting; just starting it and >then pressing Ctrl-D produces this: > >==27082== ERROR SUMMARY: 713 errors from 56 contexts (suppressed: 10 from 1) >==27082== malloc/free: in use at ex

Valgrind and Python

2007-11-09 Thread Esa A E Peuha
Running Python 2.5.1 under Valgrind is interesting; just starting it and then pressing Ctrl-D produces this: ==27082== ERROR SUMMARY: 713 errors from 56 contexts (suppressed: 10 from 1) ==27082== malloc/free: in use at exit: 1,243,153 bytes in 508 blocks. ==27082== malloc/free: 3,002 allocs, 2,494