Re: Use of mcheck during GDB development

Simon Marchi
2016-11-15T21:58:27Z

On 2016-11-15 15:50, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Yeah, or address sanitizer, which would be closer to being
> something you could always have on. Valgrind is too heavyweight
> for everyday use. I believe we're not asan clean yet, unfortunately,
> but we're slowly getting there.

I occasionally build GDB with ASAN when chasing specific bugs, and it's
been clean for my practical purposes. Except for many warnings in
libpython at startup, I don't know whether they're real or false
positives.