[bf-committers] anyone up for a challenge?
Stephen Swaney
sswaney at centurytel.net
Wed Oct 25 00:00:10 CEST 2006
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:50:14PM -0500, Kent Mein wrote:
> Yep I've used valgrind a bit, as with any tool they will have false positives
> some times. While I've only looked through things for an hour or two
> here and there, so far it seems very accurate. I have found one issue
> that was miss reported though, so I'm sure there will be others.
Since Python allocates memory like a house on fire, it maintains its
own internal memory pool. This confuses tools like valgrind unless
steps are taken ( like the valgrind py suppression file ) to filter
out the noise.
That said, some of the things on Kent's list look either bad or suspicious.
Things like
Dereference of 'end' iterator 26
are definitely suspects.
note: in the C+ Standard Template Library, end() returns an iterator
just past the end of a collection, dammit. It is not the last element.
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Stephen Swaney
sswaney at centurytel.net
231-228-7370
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