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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Use of mcheck during GDB development
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe71b281fe78c7d22c18e66909a90c1c@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fae8c1e0-7a35-b3d1-d2a5-3e852697a38d@redhat.com>

On 2016-11-15 17:07, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 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.

Ah no I've never tested that.  But if we have enough resources for the 
buildbot, we should run an x86 job with it enabled.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-15 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-15 16:00 Florian Weimer
2016-11-15 20:03 ` Pedro Alves
2016-11-15 20:22   ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-15 20:46     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-11-15 20:50     ` Pedro Alves
2016-11-15 21:58       ` Simon Marchi
2016-11-15 22:07         ` Pedro Alves
2016-11-15 22:11           ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2016-11-15 21:28     ` Yao Qi

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