Re: [Chicken-users] another news from the valgrind front

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:24:45PM +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> I've got one more issue fixed wrt. the fix I posted recently 
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-10/txtQD3AT30Qxp.txt
> 
> Since I'm recovering from a big mess I made out of my build envt.
> Here only a description:
> 
> In C_a_i_string_to_number there is "exactf" declared but (as the only
> one) not initialised.  Thus we have another case for valgrind to complain
> when it's used.

This seems like an odd bug in the generated code then, since exactf is
*always* checked before checking exactpf (like  (exactpf && exactf)),
so this should never cause a Valgrind error.

But maybe it's a bit tricky so I'll add an initializer "just in case".

Cheers,
Peter
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