On Thursday 17 June 2010, Satya V. Gupta wrote:
> Since you asked, I ran Valgrind with --demangle=no; the SIGSEGV issue I saw
> earlier went away.

Very good.

> However, I had gone to great lengths to insert symbol information into my
> image in order to chase down a run time issue I am having with the code.
> Therefore, while running with --demangle=no is a good experiment, it is not
> a practical option for me.

I have the exact same question as Julian here: what is your problem with
"--demangle=no"? It does not cut down any functionality. Symbols will just
show up demangled, which you can cope with in a postprocessing step afterwards.

> Is there another way in valgrind to restrict the
> string size offered to VG_(strcmp)() so that it won't crash? Can there be
> canary protection around the valgrind stack to protect it from being overrun
> in situations like these?

For practical reasons, this seems next to impossible for me.

Josef

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