Re: Valgrind is complaining unitialized values in freea (malloca.c:135)

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> In freea in malloca.c, a possibly uninitialized indicator word is used for
> a comparison so that Valgrind reports: "Conditional jump or move depends on
> uninitialised value(s)".
> 
> Valgrind is not smart enough to understand the logic in freea.
> 
> It would be nice if the warning could be silenced

It can be silenced: The Gnulib 'malloca' module comes with a file
'malloca.valgrind'. Use a valgrind command-line option such as

  --suppressions=$(srcdir)/gnulib-lib/malloca.valgrind

You need to adjust the path to the file, to match the directory structure of
your package.

Bruno