So, like, the other day David Gibson mumbled: > This patch adds some options to the run_tests.sh script allowing it to > run all the testcases under valgrind to check for pointer corruption > bugs and memory leaks. Invoking "make checkm" will run the testsuite > with valgrind. > > It include a mechanism for specifying valgrind errors to be suppressed > on a per-testcase basis, and adds a couple of such suppression files > for the mangle-layout and open_pack testcases which dump for use by > other testcases a buffer which may contain uninitialized sections. We > use suppressions rather than initializing the buffer so that valgrind > will catch any internal access s to the uninitialized data, which > would be a bug. > > The patch also fixes one genuine bug caught by valgrind - > _packblocks() in fdt_rw.c was using memcpy() where it should have been > using memmove(). > > At present the valgrinding won't do anything useful for testcases > invoked via a shell script - which includes all the dtc testcases. I > plan to fix that later. > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied. Thanks, jdl PS -- Clearly, I'm going to have to break down and install valgrind now. :-) _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
