[Insight-developers] Missing ITK Valgrind? : Looking for Volunteers

[Gaëtan Lehmann]

Le 21 mai 09 à 23:53, Sean McBride a écrit :

> On 5/20/09 4:05 PM, kent williams said:
>
>> Yeah. Valgrind works by tracking every variable mentioned in a  
>> program's
>> symbol table. In order to check every memory access, it's running an
>> interpreter that simulates a real-mode x86 CPU, so that every machine
>> instruction is checked for what memory it reads and writes.
>>
>> Given that you're running the CPU in software with, a bunch of extra
>> book-keeping, and hacking up malloc-level heap management so that  
>> out of
>> bounds writes and reads are detected in dynamically allocated  
>> memory, 80x
>> slowdown isn't that bad.
>
> Doesn't this cause the tests to timeout?  Do you need to raise the
> timeouts ridiculously high?


It does. The timeout has been increased to 3000 - it is 1500 by  
default IIRC.
Some tests are still I timeout though. Maybe I should try to increase  
it a bit again.

Gaëtan


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