[vtk-developers] Addition flag for valgrind

[David E DeMarle]

Kyle beat you to the suggestion. I added it to karego-at this morning and
we should see it in tonight's dashboard.


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Foks,
>
> I suggest we add the flag:
> --track-origins=yes
> to valgrind.
> "Controls whether Memcheck tracks the origin of uninitialised values. By
> default, it does not, which means that although it can tell you that an
> uninitialised value is being used in a dangerous way, it cannot tell you
> where the uninitialised value came from. This often makes it difficult to
> track down the root problem. "
> http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html
>
> For example, it helped me find this error:
> http://review.source.kitware.com/#/t/2301/
>
> which would have been hard to find without it.
>
> Bill
>
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