Re: Use of mcheck during GDB development

Pedro Alves
2016-11-15T22:07:09Z

On 11/15/2016 09:58 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> 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.

I meant when running the GDB testsuite against it. Do you know whether asan
vs non-asan is regression free for you? I haven't tried in a while.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves