Package: valgrind
Version: 1:3.3.1-2
Severity: wishlist
When I'm tracking a problem down with valgrind and need more than
12 stack frames of context, I always seem to go through the same little
dance (which I never remember until it's too late because it's so
infrequent that I need to do this):
(a) I need a longer backtrace. I know there's an option for this,
so I'll search for "backtrace" in the manpage.
(b) Darn, that wasn't it. Maybe something about the stack? *searches
for stack*.
(c) Nope. Ummmm, maybe I need to increase the number of stack frames?
Ah, --max-stackframe! ... no, that's not it either.
(d) Perhaps "context"?
(e) Ok, I'll just try searching for "max" and pray. Whoa, the first
hit tells me about "num-callers". That's what I want!
.... which is all a long-winded way of saying that for stupid people
like me, it would help if you mentioned the words "backtrace", "stack",
or "frame" in the documentation of --num-callers. Maybe something like
"By default, Valgrind shows the first twelve frames of each backtrace to
help you ... (etc)".
Daniel
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages valgrind depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Versions of packages valgrind recommends:
ii gdb 6.8-3 The GNU Debugger
Versions of packages valgrind suggests:
pn alleyoop <none> (no description available)
pn kcachegrind <none> (no description available)
pn libc6-dbg <none> (no description available)
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