>does the gcc bounds checking stuff give you the possibility of saying "this
memory is ok"?

I think yes.


2008/6/19 Gabriele Fatigati <g.fatig...@cineca.it>:

> Just a moment:
>
> i didn't compile OpenMPI with bounds checking, but only my application.
> Problems with OMPI compiled with bound checking remains.
>
>
> 2008/6/19 Jeff Squyres <jsquy...@cisco.com>:
>
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Gabriele Fatigati wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Jeff,
>>> i solved using Gigabit net and eth1 interface!
>>>
>>> So, there are problems beetween Infiniband and gcc with bound checking.
>>>
>>
>> This is probably not too surprising -- the IB driver gives back memory to
>> the process that didn't come from malloc or other traditional memory
>> allocators, and this can confuse bounds checkers, leading to false
>> positives.
>>
>> In the upcoming v1.3 series, we added a whole pile of stuff to handle
>> these kinds of false positives when running under valgrind.  Just curious --
>> does the gcc bounds checking stuff give you the possibility of saying "this
>> memory is ok"?  (valgrind does; we use it for IB-driver allocated or
>> initialized memory)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Squyres
>> Cisco Systems
>>
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