Thank you! Found the bug in my code!
From: Philippe Waroquiers
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 10:04 AM
To: Saurabh T ; Valgrind
Subject: Re: [Valgrind-users] Malloc/free in different threads
Hello,
No, valgrind/memcheck leak search is not impacted by the fact that one thread
allocates
Hello,
No, valgrind/memcheck leak search is not impacted by the fact that one thread
allocates
some memory and that the release/free is done by another thread.
That should not lead to a definite leak.
So, if Valgrind tells that there are definite leaks, that is likely real leaks
to be
Sorry I forgot to say the false positives are for memory leaks ("definitely
lost").
From: Saurabh T
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 9:44 AM
To: Valgrind
Subject: [Valgrind-users] Malloc/free in different threads
Hi, I believe I am seeing lots of false positives in valgrind if I call free()
Hi, I believe I am seeing lots of false positives in valgrind if I call free()
on a different thread from the one that called malloc() - the pointers are
exchanged between threads safely in between. Is this a known issue, or am I
doing something wrong? Thank you.
