Scilab is an application containing Java, C and C++ code, which
sometimes crashes with what looks like memory corruption. As this bug
can happen during build (building the documentation involves running the
application), it is considered RC [0].
I attempted to locate this bug using Valgrind, but found that it reports
a huge number of "errors" in even small Java applications such as jar,
suggesting that it can't properly track memory allocated/used by Java.
The Valgrind documentation [1] says --smc-check=all should fix this, but
it does not.
Any suggestions for better ways to find this bug?
[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926180
[1] http://www.valgrind.org/docs/manual/faq.html#faq.java
