[vtk-developers] Gil tests on megas

[Ben Boeckel]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:06:39 +0100, Mathieu Westphal wrote:
> I still cannot reproduce the issue with :
> export DISPLAY=:1
> export MALLOC_PERTURB_="str(random.randint(1, 255))"

Ah, it's Python code :) . I doubt this is the cause since this flag
makes free do:

    memset(freed_block, $MALLOC_PERTURB_, sizeof_freed_block)

which would make pointers with values like 0xf3f3f3f3 crop up.

> export MALLOC_CHECK_=3
> export MEMCPY_CHECK_=1
> 
> with or without the malloc/mem export, valgrind find some issue indeed, but
> valgrind find as much issue with a passing test (eg;
> .vtkChartsCorePython-TestBarGraph ), so i can't investigate further without
> being able to reproduce the issue.
> 
> If you want to have a go, i will not touch my branch for a few days, before
> merging it anyway, since the bug is not linked to my changes.

I'll try and take a look today.

--Ben