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From: Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] valgrind showing glibc warnings
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:35:52
Message-Id: 20100325103322.GA2328@zoidberg.hsd1.mi.comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] valgrind showing glibc warnings by "Crístian Viana"
1 On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:09:36AM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote:
2 > hi,
3 >
4 > when I use valgrind, it shows hundreds of warnings related to glibc. here's
5 > one example, from "valgrind ls":
6 >
7 > ==10023== Use of uninitialised value of size 8
8 > ==10023== at 0x55605A4: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so)
9 > ==10023== by 0x5560111: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so)
10 > ==10023== by 0x4A1E62C: _vgnU_freeres (in
11 > /usr/lib64/valgrind/amd64-linux/vgpreload_core.so)
12 > ==10023== by 0x548CE84: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so)
13 > ==10023== by 0x548CEF4: exit (in /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so)
14 > ==10023== by 0x40864D: (within /bin/ls)
15 > ==10023== by 0x5476A25: (below main) (in /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so)
16 >
17 > while that happens, I can't use valgrind because there's too much noise
18 > besides my program's [possible] memory errors.
19 >
20 > any idea of why is this happening? I reemerged =sys-libs/glibc-2.10.1-r1 but
21 > nothing has changed.
22 >
23 > cheers,
24 > Crístian.
25 You may want to look into supressions. There's an option called --gen-suppressions.
26 See the man page for details.
27
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